I chose to do my report on Nikola Tesla. He is a Serbian-American Inventor who was most known for creating the Alternating Current Motor. He was born July 10, 1856. In what is now Croatia. Growing up Nikola’s mother was a huge influence on him becoming a scientist.
His father was pushing him to become a priest, but Tesla was more interested in becoming a scientist. In the early years of his life, Nikola’s brother was killed in a riding accident. That is the main reason for him having mental illnesses later in his life. After studying the Johann-Rudolph-Glauber Realschule Karlstadt at the Polytech Institute in Graz, Nikola Tesla moved to Budapest. Where he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange.
While in Budapest he first thought of the
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By talking about building a powerful “death beam” he was going to invent and use on Thomas Edison. This “death beam” was sought after by the Soviet Union during World War Two.
Poor, old and lonely Nikola Tesla died on January 7th, 1943 at the age of 86. In New York City. where he had lived for nearly sixty years. But the work he devoted his life to is still widely used today.
Multiple books and movies have been made in honour of Nikola Tesla and the work he devoted his life to. Including, “Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit The World.” A documentary created by the Tesla Memorial Society and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade Serbia. A street sign in New York City, had the words “Nikola Tesla Corner” where Nikolas lab was.
Since Nikola Tesla originally gave up his ownership of the Wardenclyffe site, it has been owned by several different people. Many people have also tried to restore it, but in 1994 efforts to have it restored have been declared a national historic site failure. Then, in 2008, a group of scientists formed a group called the Tesla Science Center, They had the intention of restoring the site to the original owner's intention. But they turned it into a
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist. He was also considered an eccentric genius and recluse. Tesla is best known for his feud with Thomas Edison over AC power Versus DC Power. He was also well known for inventing the Tesla Coil which is still used in radio technology today. Nikola Tesla was mostly forgotten until the 1990’s when there was a resurgence of interest in popular culture.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an eccentric man that was many lifetimes ahead of his generation. He was a man that dreamed of giving the world an unlimited supply of wireless energy. His genius imagination allowed him to think outside the box and solve issues that others had thought were unsolvable. Nikola Tesla proposed his vision for a system powered by an alternating current generator to Thomas Edison and was shot down because Thomas Edison’s power structure had already been established using a direct current system. The two butt heads however Nikola Tesla was relentless. After being used and rejected by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla picked himself and went toe to toe with the most prolific inventor. The stage for David vs Goliath was set. Through Nikola Tesla’s borderline obsession to solve the design for an alternating current motor and sacrificing his own opportunity to become a wealthy man, we now live in a very efficient world where everyone reaps the rewards of his genius, few know his name, and even fewer know what he did.
Nikola Tesla (Physicist, Inventor, Futurist) – Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American electrical engineer, inventor, physicist, futurist and mechanical engineer who was recognized for his assistance in the proposal of alternating current (AC) for the system of electricity. He was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Austrian Empire which is presently known as Croatia. His father was named Milutin Tesla and was an Orthodox Priest. While his mother, Duka Tesla, was good in making home mechanical appliances, craft tools and has the skill to memorize Serbian poems.
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The first electric battery was built towards the end of 1799 by a man who was both a natural philosopher - a member of the Republic of Letters of the late Enlightenment - and an artisan-like inventor of intriguing machines. The present paper is a discussion of the role played by Enlightenment ideals in the introduction and assessment of artifacts ...
As James Levine is famous for saying, “I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.” To me, one of the greatest mentors of innovative scientific history was Nikola Tesla. That being said, if given the opportunity to spend the next year of my life in a different time period I would like to live during the year 1942 so I could work beside Tesla. This was the year before Tesla died, a time when he had experienced the full scope of his expertise and could impart that wisdom to me. My questions about his popularity would be answered in full. Questions about Tesla’s integrity could lead to the answer to the legendary disputes about what was rightfully his. Legends about genius inventions that could only be imagined
The Earth is not a piece of quartz - it’s like a stone with many imperfections and scratches, and though it retains its scratches, it attempts to heal them; it bandages its wounds. To heal a wound, though, it must be first isolated: and in the case of the world, it is literal flaw that resides with the mask of a wound - combated, though not incapacitated, by the innovators of the Earth. A telephone, refrigerator, microwave, civil rights and gender equality - not only technology, but even a concept as imperative as liberation or equality have altered the globe (as humans see it), for the better: technology has made life easier for humans, ideal rights and equality have been gifted to those that require it, and efforts have been exclaimed in order to protect the natural amenities that are taken for granted. The reason adhered to by the innovators, dedicated to creating the aforesaid circumstances, is rather simple: they endeavor as they do because of the profit that befits not only themselves, but the world in doing so. When Alexander Graham Bell and Antonio Meucci developed the telephone, they distributed communication among the masses (a profit), and thereby changed the globe for the better; that same reason is reflected throughout the ages: Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave, gained favorable avail via his invention for not only himself, but the Earth as well. Thus, the innovators of the world retain that reason: they change things for the better because of the positive benefit that would befit doing so - the positive benefit for not only themselves, but the world. Nikola Tesla, one of those innovators, arguably fathomed that reason more than anyone. “Born on July 9, 1856, in Smijan, Croatia, Tesla was the child of a clergy...
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He spent a few years of his life in Milan, but when he turned seven him and his family moved to Michigan. Thomas Edison's parents are Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. and Nancy Matthews Elliott. His mother was a former teacher and his dad was a shopkeeper. Edison was the youngest out of seven children. Edison attended school for a short period of time but later became home schooled. Being homeschooled allowed Edison to do more things like experimenting in his basement, crate his habit of reading and make his own newspapers. At a young age Thomas Edison started developing problems with his hearing which was caused by untreated middle-ear infections and scarlet fever he received in his childhood.
Nikola Tesla is a man that many individuals associate with brilliance. Moreover, Tesla is a name that ignites impulses within an individual’s brain which illuminate, via bio-circuitry, the thought association of Tesla and brilliance, similar to the force we term as electricity. Brilliance however, shouldn’t be the only descriptive word to come to mind when thinking of one of the greatest engineers and inventors to live. Innovation and determination should be undoubtedly included in the list of descriptive words of Mr. Nikola Tesla. For without the innovative mind of Tesla, midcentury inventions as well as current technological advances would be nonexistent, or worse, credited to Thomas Edison.
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Shortly after he was found dead by a maid in his hotel suite on January 7th, 1943 Nikola Tesla was a name rarely uttered. He soon fell out of the memory of the public. Despite this he was a man before his time. Tesla set the world on a course into the twenty first century a hundred years prior to the new millennium. His life proves that being famous does not make you the greatest. If Nikola Tesla never shared his interest in electricity with the world, this essay would probably not have been types over a Wi-Fi signal on a wireless laptop that charges with AC power. Nikola Tesla may not be a household name, but that does not mean his idea are not used every day in our households.
arriving in New York City with four cents in his pocket, and many great ideas in
It became very famous and known among people during that time. One of the great things and services that this museum gives till now is the presence of Arnett Hartsfield in it until nowadays. He was hired as a firefighter in 1940s and 50s. He did a lot throughout his journey in this place fighting racism and also serving his country. He is volunteering there, not caring about his old age which is 92 years old, and still working there to give more to his country and to benefit the coming generations about the history of such an amazing place. When he was hired he had a Law degree from U.S.C and he was determined to equalize people in the fire station and make life the same for the black firefighters as the white firefighters. He is usually telling the visitors stories about the black firefighters during that time and their great achievements. He isn’t only serving the museum through being there only, but he also travels and visits places where he talks to people about the African American firefighters and that they should be equal to the white firefighters and also that they should be hired with the same percentage as them. The museum is opened based on the volunteer work and donations from people. Some people are allowed to use it if they need a good place to hold a meeting on or if they have a very special dinner. Organizations can use it too, to make trips and retreats. This museum helped in declaring 2 major
Another incredibly talented and well- known inventor is none other than Nikola Tesla. Tesla was born in Smiljan, Lika, in the region of Croatia on July 10, 1856. His father was an Orthodox priest, and his mother was a house hold appliance inventor. As a child he was known for being ingenious and obsessive. Tesla was a very fast-paced and obsessive learner. He often pulled all-nighters, or functioned with only a few hours of sleep. Tesla loved challenging the standard theories, along with improving and advancing them. Unfortunately, his obsessiveness with subjects and challenges caused him to develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. (SOURCE). As a young adult, he took classes at the Realschule, Karlstadt iin 1873, and although he started his career
He studied electrical engineering at Graz Politechnic in Graz, Austria. He then moved to Budapest to work for the American Telephone Company in 1881. He then moved to Yugoslavia, where he became chief engineer to that country's first telephone system. Later he moved to Paris to work for the Continental Edison Company. While there, he developed devices that used rotating magnetic fields, for which he later received patents.