The Concealed Prodigy - Nikola Tesla

 I am sure that you all might have heard of  Thomas Edison ,an American inventor and businessman most known for his invention of lightbulb, telephone , and his development of Direct Current (a current that runs continually in a single direction, like in a battery or a fuel cell. ) 

But have you heard of a inventor ,electrical engineer , mechanical engineer, and futurist named Nikola Tesla ?  Let me tell you about him



Nikola Tesla  ---- Born on 10 July 1856 , Smiljan, Austrian Empire 

 The current we use in our homes today ,most of the motors we use today, the radio are the creations of this forgotten man 

Nikola Tesla made groundbreaking inventions like Alternating Current (a Current that runs in both directions ) AC induction motors , radio , World wireless system, Tesla valve ,Remote control , Neon lamp , Tesla  coil, Three-phase electric power and Wireless telegraphy
In his family his father was a priest in Siberian orthodox church and his other was a farmer. as a result of an accident his brother Daniel died, after his loss Tesla was devastated and his mental health deteriorated .

Later in years, Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. During a walk in 1882, he made the first sketches of the rotating electromagnets for a brushless AC motor . In the same year he moved to Paris and got a job repairing direct current (DC) power plants with the Continental Edison Company.

After an argument with his boss Edison, Tesla quit his job and started his own company which was an unsuccessful attempt but caught the attention of an inventor George Westinghouse who had launched the first AC power system near Boston and was Edison’s major competitor in the “Battle of the Currents.” Westinghouse hired Tesla, licensed the patents for his AC motor and gave him his own lab. 

The Tesla coil was a high voltage transformer that Tesla invented in the 1890s. Two years before Marconi, he also experimented with X-rays, gave short-range demonstrations of radio communication and piloted a radio-controlled boat around a Madison Square Garden pool.  The first modern electric power station was built by Tesla and Westinghouse at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and General Electric at Niagara Falls, working together with General Electric.

In 1895 Tesla’s New York lab burned, destroying years’ worth of notes and equipment. A year later, he received backing from financier J.P. Morgan and began to build a global communications network centered on Wardenclyffe, Long Island. Morgan balked at Tesla's grandiose plans when funds dried up.
As his energy and mental health waned, Tesla spent his last decades working on new inventions in a New York hotel. Tesla died in his room on January 7, 1943. 

A genius inventor who dedicated his entire life to the betterment of the humankind died alone and indigent. It is a pity that not everyone recognizes his works.


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