Nikola Tesla

             Nikola Tesla is the true prophet of the electrical age and in no doubt one of the most brilliant inventor of the 19th and 20th century, with whom our radio, alternating current power generation and transmission, radio and television would all have been impossible. Yet his life and times have vanished largely from the general public. One of the many inventions Tesla has created, probably the most notable one, was the alternating current or AC induction motor, which made the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. Even though Tesla's eccentric life had caused him to be a social recluse and unknown to many, his spark of genius has created many inventions that indeed have changed the world.
             Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Yugoslavia to a father, who was a Christian orthodox priest, and a mother, who was unschooled but highly intelligent (ChipCenter). He studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague (Peat, page 25). Tesla intended to specialize in mathematics and physics but later became very interested and fascinated in electricity. After his studies, Tesla began his career as an electrical engineer in a telephone company in Budapest, Hungary. In the mean time, Tesla discovered the solution to the rotating magnetic field with the principle of an induction motor.
             In 1884, Nikola Tesla came to New York City in the United States of America (Peat, page 25). He worked on improving the generators for producing direct current (DC), for Thomas Edison. It was here that Tesla and Edison begun their battle for the currents. Edison fought a losing battle to protect his investments in direct current equipment and facilities.
             Nikola Tesla pointed out the inefficiency of Edison's direct current electrical powerhouses by thinking of all energies as cyclic. In the internet article, John Gareth describes how Tesla built generators that would send electrical e...

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