Probably you heard something about Nicola Tesla. He is a
very important person in science. He is the father of the electric. He
contributed to science by making many inventions and his most known invention
is alternating current electricity supply system. Let's examine the life of
this genius.
First Experiences
Nicola Tesla was born
in 1856 in Croatia it was in the Austrian empire at that time. He studied
engineering and physics in the 1870s without a degree. In 1882, Tivadar Puskás
got Tesla another job in Paris with the Continental Edison Company. In 1882,
Tivadar Puskás gave another job to Tesla in Paris with the Continental Edison
Company. In this company, Tesla gained practical experience in electrical
engineering. In 1884, he went to the US and he became a citizen. He worked for
a little time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he left the
company.
He Is Starting To Realize His Ideas
Now it was time to
implement and market their ideas. With the help of partners for this purpose,
Tesla established laboratories and companies in New York to develop and
manufacture electrical and mechanical devices. The alternating current (AC)
induction motor licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888 and related
multi-phase AC patents had been an important event for him, and Tesla made good
money and eventually became the cornerstone of the multi-phase system the
company marketed. Tesla's ideas about new alternating current motors and
electrical transmission equipment did not attract much attention. After the
plant became operational in 1886, they decided that the production side of the
enterprise was very competitive and that it would only install electrical
installations. They left Tesla's company and started a new company. Tesla later
lost control of the patents he produced, because investors came to the company
for stocks. He had to work on various electrical repairs for $ 2 a day.
Trying to develop
inventions, Tesla carried out a series of experiments with mechanical
oscillators/generators, electric discharge tubes, and early x-ray imaging. He
also made a wireless controlled boat, one of the first on display. Throughout
the 1890s, Tesla continued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide
wireless electrical energy distribution in high-voltage, high-frequency power
experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made statements about
the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to use
these ideas practically on the unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an
intercontinental wireless and power transmitter but financed it unfinished.
Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943.
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