NIKOLA TESLA:
-TRUE UNSUNG PROPHET OF THE ELEC “TRIC” &”TRONIC” AGE. -THE ELECTRIC MAGICIAN -THE FORGOTTEN GENIOUS -AND WHAT NOT!
-Navajyoth kumar,EEE,B.TECH (III/IV)
Despite his relative obscurity, the greatest genius of all time may have been Nikola Tesla. With over 7 00 patents in his name, Tesla shaped our current Technological landscape more than any other individual. But this great man did end up dying destitute and in obscurity. Tesla was a fascinating scientist, possibly even the prototype for the classic Mad Scientist. He’s also a staple of the conspiracist’s universe. Born in Croatia in 1856, Tesla came to the U.S. at the age of 28 with little more than the clothes on his back. His work in the fields of physics, electricity, and magnetism was ground breaking, and probably everyday items like telephones, radios, televisions, X-rays, microwave ovens, and even the electricity in your home wouldn’t exist had it not been for this eccentric inventor. Nikola Tesla eventually worked for both of the giants in electrical development in the U.S.: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. When Thomas Edison developed the first commercially viable electric light bulb, he knew it would be worthless if communities had no way to power them. Edison’s Company, General Electric, built electrical generating stations using a power delivery system called direct current (DC). But Tesla had different ideas. Frustrated by Edison’s methods, he quit and developed a competing generation system (alternating current — AC) for Westinghouse that still is the standard method of electrical delivery all over the world till today. Starting in 1901, Tesla assembled financial backing for his long-dreamed-of “World System.” On Long Island he began to build a 187-foot tower, called Wardenclyffe Tower, with a domed top, looking like the world’s biggest salt shaker. Tesla’s ultimate plan was to build these towers all around the world to create a global radio broadcasting system, a way to synchronize the world’s clocks, a global navigation system, and his greatest desire, the wireless transmission of free electricity to anyone with a special underground wire conductor and a dish like antenna on their roof. Tesla dreamed of free power for everyone, but financier J. P. Morgan wasn’t so generous. When he finally heard of Tesla’s “free power” plan, he demanded to know how investors would recoup their money if they couldn’t sell electricity. “Where do I put the meter?” he famously asked. When the inventor explained his humanitarian
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