TOP 8 THINGS YOU
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THOMAS ALVA EDISON
10. 2. Tesla was not a savvy businessman and suffered
financially, despite his achievements. He lost financial
backing from Morgan, who felt he couldn’t profit from
Tesla’s wireless electricity concept, and sold his assets
to make up for dual foreclosures on Wardenclyffe. The
property was later sold to a film processing company. In
1917, the U.S. government demolished Tesla’s partially
completed tower because it worried German spies
would use it to intercept communications during World
War I.
11. His long-abandoned Long Island laboratory will
soon become a museum. Earlier this year, a non-profit
organization raised enough money to purchase the longabandoned
Wardenclyffe. The group plans to restore
the building and turn it into a Tesla museum and science
education center.
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things-you-didnt-know-about-nikola-tesla
1. At age 16, after early forays in the newspaper
business, Thomas Edison began working as a telegraph
operator. The experience taught him a great deal about
practical electricity -- from circuit wiring to batteries to
electromagnetism -- and spurred his first serious efforts
at invention.
2. In 1876, Edison set up his famous “Invention Factory,”
a laboratory complex in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison
and the Menlo Park gang -- an expansive staff of scientists
and engineers -- pioneered improvements to a variety of
inventions, including the incandescent light bulb.
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