Nikola Tesla's Impact On Society

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more,” is a quote once spoken by the acclaimed Nikola Tesla. This remarkable man made a great impact on society and inspired the world with his futuristic concepts. To this day, Tesla and his inventions are praised throughout all of society. Countless states across the United States observe his birthday, July 10, as a holiday in tribute to his contribution to the advance in what was previously known about how electricity worked. Like his mother, Tesla had a knack for inventing new and/or useful things. Before realizing his fascination in the electrical field, Tesla intended to specialize in mathematics and physics. He studied at Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria, Realschule, Karlstadt, and University of Prague. Tesla kicked off his career as an electrical engineer in 1881 with a position at a phone company in Budapest. From there, Tesla and his ideas commenced to thrive, starting with his idea on the principle of the induction motor, which he first illustrated to a friend as they were passing through a park. The idea pertaining to the magnetic field earned him a job with the Continental Edison Company in Paris. Tesla remained an employee until 1884, when he traveled to America to work under Thomas Edison.

New York remained his home for the next fifty nine years, where his extensive discussion with Edison over direct current versus alternating current began. Edison did not know at the time, but he had entered a losing battle to preserve all his extensive work and investments. Tesla felt Edison’s electrical powerhouses assembled all down the coast were inefficient. He also felt as if Edison’s lamps were ineffectual seeing as they could not be transferred long distances. Bountiful disagreements arose between the two as time passed and Tesla’s intelligence