Summary
#Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. He created the #"Tesla coil," which is still used in radio technology. Born in modern-day Croatia, #Tesla came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked with #Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his AC machinery, to George Westinghouse
Early Life
#Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia, on July 10, 1856.Tesla's interest in electrical invention was spurred by his mother, #Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances in her spare time while her son was growing up.Rebuilt, Tesla's house (parish hall) in #Smiljan, now in #Croatia, where he was born, and the rebuilt church, where his father served. During the Yugoslav Wars, several of the buildings were severely damaged by fire. They were restored and reopened in 2006.
Education
After studying at the #Realschule, Karlstadt (later renamed the Johann-Rudolph-Glauber Realschule Karlstadt) in #Germany; the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria; and the #University of Prague during the 1870s, Tesla moved to Budapest, where for a time he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange.#Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. He emigrated in 1884 to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the #Edison Machine Works in #New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
Tesla vs Edison
In 1884 #Tesla arrived in the United States with little more than the clothes on his back and a letter of introduction to famed inventor and business mogul #Thomas Edison, whose DC-based electrical works were fast becoming the standard in the country.
Several months later, the two parted ways due to a conflicting business-scientific relationship, attributed by historians to their incredibly different personalities: While Edison was a power figure who focused on marketing and financial success, Tesla was commercially out-of-touch and somewhat vulnerable.
First Solo Venture
In 1885, #Tesla received funding for the Tesla Electric Light Company and was tasked by his investors to develop improved arc lighting. After successfully doing so, however, #Tesla was forced out of the venture and for a time had to work as a manual laborer in order to survive.
His luck would change two years later when he received funding for his new Tesla Electric Company.
Inventions
- #Carbon button lamp
- #Death ray
- #Induction motor
- #Plasma globe
- #Plasma lamp
- #Polyphase system
- #Radio control
- #Resonant inductive coupling
- #Rotating magnetic field
- #Teleforce
- #Telegeodynamics
- #Teleoperation
- #Tesla coil
- #Tesla Experimental Station
- #Tesla's oscillator
- #Tesla turbine
- #Tesla valve
- #Torpedo
- #Vacuum variable capacitor
- #Violet ray
- #BOL
- #Wardenclyffe Tower
- #Wireless power transfer
- #World Wireless System
Awards
- #Order of St. Sava, II Class, Government of Serbia (1892)
- #Elliott Cresson Medal (1894)
- #Order of Prince Danilo I (1895)
- #Edison Medal (1916)
- #Order of St. Sava, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1926)
- #Order of the Yugoslav Crown (1931)
- #John Scott Medal (1934)
- #Order of the White Eagle, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1936)
- #Order of the White Lion, I Class, Government of Czechoslovakia (1937)
- #University of Paris Medal (1937)
- #The Medal of the University St Clement of Ochrida, Sofia, Bulgaria (1939)
Death
Poor and reclusive, Tesla died of coronary thrombosis on January 7, 1943, at the age of 86 in New York City, where he had lived for nearly 60 years. However, the legacy of the work Tesla left behind him lives on to this day.
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