...November 25, 2012 Nikola Tesla Few people recognize his name today, and even among those who do, the words Nikola Tesla are likly to summon up the image of a crackpot rather than an authentic scientist. Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without doubt, a genius who is not only credited with many devices we use today, but is also credited with astonishing, sometimes world-transforming, devices that are even simply amazing by todays scientific standards. Tesla was born at precisely midnight between July 9th and 10th, 1856, in a small Hungarien village. He was born to his father, a priest, and his mother, an unschooled but extremely intelligent women. Training for an engineering career, he attendedthe Technical University of Graz, Austria and was shortly employed in a government telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made his first invention, a telephone repeater. Tesla sailed to America in 1884, arriving in New York City with four cents in his pocket, and many great ideas in his head. He first found employment with a young Thomas Edison in New Jersey, but the two inventors, were far apart in background and methods. But, because of there differences, Tesla soon left the employment of Edison, and in May 1885, George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period, during which Tesla invented but lost...
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...Few people know his name today, and even those who do the words Nikola Tesla are likely to come up with the image of a crackpot rather than an authentic scientist. Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has known. He was is without a doubt a genius who isn’t only credited with many devices we use today, but is also credited with astonishing, sometimes world transforming that are even amazing by today’s standards. Nikola Tesla (born 10 July 1856 Smiljan, Austrian Empire) a Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer was the first person to prove and perfect the efficiency of AC (Alternating Current). Nikola Tesla had quite an interesting childhood. As a child his mother would make him do daily exercises to strengthen his mental capabilities. These included repeating long sentences back to her, doing complicated mental calculations, and guessing what another person was thinking. His mother came from a long line of inventors, and she herself was quite the inventor. She made all sorts of tools for around the house. Tesla’s father wanted him to be a clergyman, but that changed after Tesla contracted an infection and was bed ridden for 9 months. He asked his father if he got better if he could be an engineer. His father replied that he would send him to the best technical institute in the country. Tesla's interest in electrical invention was likely spurred by his mother, Djuka Mandic. She came from a long line of inventors, and she herself was quite the inventor...
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...system,Although Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man he had his flaws, Tesla’s fatal flaw was his need to isolate himself. later at an older age had his life spiraled out of control after being isolated from everyone. Although Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man he had his flaws, Tesla’s fatal flaw was his need to isolate himself. The loss of his mother, leaving Edison’s company, and never wanting a wife, this isolation may have been what caused Nikola Tesla’s downfall later in life. Nikola Tesla’s mother influenced his creativity early in his life. When Tesla was a boy his mother used her creativity to make things that helped her around the house. Djuka Tesla was an able, bright woman despite being illiterate. She was born in Tomingaj and was the daughter of Nikola Mandic(Bio-orthodoxy). She invented things like a cradle that attached to her bed. Even...
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...Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla, the world’s greatest inventor, the Serbian-American man who made revolutionary discoveries. Born July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia was a very important person in history, who made a very important discovery that has changed the world. Nikola Tesla is one of the people in our history that is rarely talked about and given credit for the many inventions, ideas, and discoveries he’s made. We are being taught about Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein. But many people don’t know why Nikola Tesla is just as important as other scientists. Nikola Tesla was very smart; he invented many things, like Wireless Communication that would allow us to communicate with different people around the world without the hassle of many wires. He even wanted to supply everyone with free energy, all around the world. “Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge.” (http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/10-inventions-of-nikola-tesla-that.html). Another Invention Nikola Tesla created was also the idea of smartphone technology and wireless internet. He wanted to create a device...
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...Nikola Tesla, commonly known as The Wizard, was a man known for his brilliant ideas of grand proportions. Though the two articles, Nikola Tesla and the Story Behind his Genius by Leah Binkovitz and The Rise & Fall of Nikola Tesla & his Tower, give an account for the life and achievements of Nikola Tesla, they have vastly different perspectives. These articles have many similarities, but one of the biggest differences is their interpretation of Tesla as a man. While the article Nikola Tesla and the Story Behind his Genius shows Nikola as a remarkable man going on to call him, “a maverick [in both business and in science]” (Binkovitz, pg. 3). The Rise & Fall of Nikola Tesla & his Tower gives a bleak description of Tesla and his life. The introduction...
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...mattered to Tesla all he wanted was to create something that everyone loved. Tesla did not have the greatest relationships with other inventors such as Thomas edison and their conflict over AC and DC. Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. Growing up Nikola had a strong interest in electrical inventions which he acquired from his mother who would often invent home appliances in her spare time. Nikola attended school at Gymnasium Karlovac and then later arrived at the Graz University of Technology. Tesla soon became an electrical and mechanical engineer. He would also soon become a famed Inventor.Tesla first arrived in the united states in 1884 and began working with another famous inventor, Thomas Edison. The two did not work together for a long period of time due to a business-scientific conflicting relationship. After a long life of hard work and perseverance Tesla retired from the inventing business and soon died alone...
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...Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla once stated, “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane”. Ostracized from society, Nikola Tesla became one of the most influential and genuinely intelligent inventors of all time. Tesla was born on July 10th of 1856 and grew up in Smiljan of the Austrian empire, or modern day Croatia. He attended secondary school at Gymnasium Karlovac in Karlovac, Croatia, and furthermore studied at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, as well as Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. However, when struck by disease at age 86, Tesla died in New York City, New York on January 7, 1943 due to incurable coronary thrombosis. His current resting place is at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, and his urn is on display...
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...Nikola Tesla Hi today we will be talking about an australian immigrant named Nikola Tesla he was born on July 10,1856 in smiljan croatia.But today it is now just croatia in his time Tesla went to america to become an inventor in 1884.Back then thousands of immigrants were all crammed on to one boat and if they wanted to bring anything valueable there was a little space for lugage.When Nikola went to america he worked with Thomas Edison over time Tesla and Edison grew to be ferice competers but rather than thomas ending the partnership they both parted ways.Tesla had a blessed happy childhood he had two sisters Agelina tesla,Marica Tesla ,and one brother Dane and parents a Dad Milutin Tesla and mom Duka Tesla but sadly they died Tesla was...
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...Ruiz 1 History 12 17 June 2015 Nikola Tesla: The Father Of Electricity Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in what is today the Republic of Croatia. Tesla grew up in a time where young men had two choices in their lifelong professions, join the army or be a priest. His dad being a priest, one would think a young Tesla would follow in his footsteps, but he didn’t. Luckily for Tesla his love and passion for electricity and inventing would lead him to Joanneum Polytechnic School in Graz, Austria. This is where his professor Jacob Poeschi brought a generator to his physics class and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson states in her book ar of The Currents that while W watching the dynamo perform, Tesla thought it was needlessly complicated (page 16). When Tesla voiced his opinion, his teacher didn’t like that very much. Poeschi would spent the rest of the class explaining why Tesla’s idea would not work. Tesla was humiliated by the criticism of his teacher, but he didn’t let it sway him.He believed in his heart that he could make a system for powering machines with alternating current. There is something about great thinkers and the way they use criticism and negative energy to fuel their own inventive power, and Tesla was no exception. One afternoon while walking through the park in Budapest with a good friend. The setting sun brought on a spark of inspiration inside Tesla's mind. Dropping to the ground, he grabbed a nearby twig and started to draw a diagram in the dirt...
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...Nikola Tesla was famous for inventing and patenting many things. Some of those inventions transported energy, or even harnessed it. Above all, the inventor Nikola Tesla is, arguably, a very brilliant inventor. The childhood of young Tesla was full of grief. First off, Nikola’s older brother died when he, Nikola, was very young. Then he overheard Mrs.Wentzlas, his caretaker, talking, “‘but he’s no genius. Oh Mark, why did it have to be Dane?’” At this, young Nikola Tesla decided he would be greater and smarter than Dane could have ever been, and that included not just inventing things, but training his dog, Keno, to be better at doing tricks than Dane’s dog’ Trixie. As Nikola grew-up, he created many machines. One of these was the Hydroelectric...
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...Born and raised in Austrian Empire, Nikola Tesla born the 10th of July in 1856, and passed his lifelong legacy Jan. 1st 1943. I wrote about this amazing Serbian American inventor because of his potential influence in electrical engineering,mechanical engineering,physicist, and futurist who was well known for his contributions to the design of modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. NIkola tesla is often a symbolic unifying force of inspiration for all nations in the name of peace and science. His was a visionary far beyond the contemporaries in the field of scientific development. tesla pointed out the inefficiency of Edison's direct current electrical powerhouses that have been constructed down Atlantic seaboard. doing more...
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...Nikola Tesla was a great innovator. In his life, he invented many products, obtaining over three-hundred patents. Although all of these inventions were important, one major invention changed the world by helping fuel the Industrial Revolution. Inventor Nikola Tesla created the first alternating current (A.C.) motor. This famous inventor, Nikola Tesla lived from July 10, 1856 until July 7, 1953 (Nikola Tesla Master of Lightning, 1). He spent his early childhood in Smiljan, Croatia. As the son of a minister, he frequently moved around Croatia with his family, attending several different good quality primary and secondary schools. After his father’s death, his uncles raised enough money for Tesla to move to Prague to attend college (Tesla Biography, 2). Although never officially obtaining a degree, he audited classes and obtained a college level education at the University of Prague. In 1884, he moved to the United States of America and resided in New York, New York for the rest of his life (Tesla Biography, 3). Mainly working for Thomas Edison, then Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla created many interesting inventions. Most importantly, working in his small laboratory in Manhattan, New York, he invented the alternating current (A. C.) motor, in 1892. He obtained a patent on this A.C. motor in February 25, 1896 (Tesla Patent...
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... There are a lot of questions to ponder on questions like how do you measure the impact it has made to civilization, does it lead to further innovation or an end product in its own, what negative impact has it had to our world? All these questions are valid questions and lead to me being very subjective on this topic while selecting my 3 innovators and their inventions. Nikola Tesla, one of the most unsung inventors of all, he was arguably the greatest inventor of all time his portfolio included the electrical coil, radio waves and a host of other patents which he still owns till this day. Tesla was born in 1856 in in the Austrian Empire now the modern day Croatia; he was an electrical and mechanical engineer, a physicist and above all an inventor holding over 300 documented patents in the fields of science and technology. What makes him so great was his aspiration to move the human race forward through his inventions, his patents were “freeware” he was not stringent on people stealing his ideas and using it “I don't care that they stole my idea…. I care that they don't have any of their own”- Nikola Tesla. His most prominent inventions are the AC (Alternating Current); which developed polyphase alternating current system of generators, motors and transformers which were a huge usurper to the DC (Direct Current) Technology which...
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...teslaTesla Biography NIKOLA TESLA THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD Nikola Tesla symbolizes a unifying force and inspiration for all nations in the name of peace and science. He was a true visionary far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific development. New York State and many other states in the USA proclaimed July 10, Tesla’s birthday- Nikola Tesla Day. Many United States Congressmen gave speeches in the House of Representatives on July 10, 1990 celebrating the 134th anniversary of scientist-inventor Nikola Tesla. Senator Levine from Michigan spoke in the US Senate on the same occasion. The street sign “Nikola Tesla Corner” was recently placed on the corner of the 40th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. There is a large photo of Tesla in the Statue of Liberty Museum. The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey has a daily science demonstration of the Tesla Coil creating a million volts of electricity before the spectators eyes. Many books were written about Tesla : Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O’Neill and Margaret Cheney’s book Tesla: Man out of Time has contributed significantly to his fame. A documentary film Nikola Tesla, The Genius Who Lit the World, produced by the Tesla Memorial Society and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Orson Welles), BBC Film Masters of the Ionosphere are other tributes to the great genius. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10,...
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...Nikola Tesla In the world of electricity there is no inventor more famous than Thomas Edison who fills history books with his world of lights and electricity. Radios, X-Ray’s, alternating current (AC) and the Television are all around today thanks to a man who most American students never hear about in school. The Master of Lightning, Nikola Tesla, is a man who is missing from the very same history book, as Edison. Tesla is the inventor of the electric motor, the remote control, and the Tesla coil. He lit up the world with amazing inventions still used today. To have such a bright inventor, who illuminated the path for such great inventions used today to be left in the dark is an insult to the world. Born in July of 1856 in Austria, the son an orthodox priest and an unschooled woman, Tesla was an imaginative child who was highly encouraged to follow in his father’s lead into priesthood (Hunt, 2012). At the age of seventeen Tesla contracted cholera, being an intelligent young man he made a deal with his father that if he survived he would be allowed to follow his dream and go to a technical college. With his survival Tesla was allowed to fall his dream and went to Technical University at Graz, where he was introduced to the Gramme Dynamo, an invention that inspired and hunted him for years. At the age of twenty-four, while he was walking with a friend in Budapest, he saw a lightning strike and with a stick he drew in the sand his first design for the induction motor (PBS,...
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