Alex Henry, Hunter House, Roman Ibarra May 8, 2019
Nikola Tesla was an amazing inventor, physics, electrical engineer in the late 19th and 20th century. Nikola Tesla was most famous for inventing the alternating current (AC). Nikola Tesla was born July 10th 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. He passed away January 7, 1943 due to coronary thrombosis. He lived to be 86, which atthat time was a long time to be alive. He’s currently resting at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia.Tesla emigrated to the United States in 1884. Tesla lived in New York, he naturalized his citizenship in 1891, and worked at Edison machine works (built by Thomas A. Edison) making dynamos, large electrical motors and other electronic components. Later on he departed on his own. With some help to market and finance his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop many electronic devices. Nikolai dropped out of Graz University of Technology. Nikola earned a series prizes some of those being Edison medal (1916), John Scott medal (1934) and University of Paris medal (1937) and many more.
Nikola had a weird obsession of walking to the park every single day to feed the pigeons. He even fed them at the window of his hotel. He would bring the injured ones inside to nurse. Nikola said he was being visited very often by a specific white pigeon who was injured. Tesla spent $2,000 and even inventing a device to carefully support the pigeons broken bones so it could heal. “I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.”
Tesla curled his toes 100 times for each night. He said it helped him stimulate his brain cells. At one point he left many unpaid bills at many hotels in New York. Tesla in his later times became a vegetarian, eating bread, honey, vegetable juices, and milk. Tesla was 6 feet 2 inches. His sleep wasn’t very good. He only slept for two hours a night. He would doze off and recharge his batteries, though. Tesla had one amazing memory giving him the ability to memorize complete books. he claimed he had a photographic memory, which is very believable. He never made drawings by hand, and he worked from his memory. Tesla said he frequently has flashbacks of his previous life. Tesla spoke eight languages. Tesla claimed he invented a death ray. Tesla called it “Teleforce,” which he would say it could “send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation’s border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks.”
What: Hunter According to the History Channel Tesla was as Serbian engineer physicist who had many breakthroughs in electricity transmission. In 1882, while on a walk, he came up with the idea for an AC (alternating current) motor which produces the kind that is used in homes for plugging in appliances.He also invented the remote, the Tesla turbine, tesla coil, the neon lamp and many other things related to electricity.The Tesla Coil is used in educational demonstrations, novelty lighting and music.His father was an Orthodox priest in siberia all though his mother was unschooled she was highly intelligent. When he had started his engineering school he had chosin Technical University at Graz, Austria
Nikola Tesla invented a lot of things. After 80 to 100 years later It seems like a lot of those inventions won’t be relevant anymore. However, Nikola Tesla was so ahead of his time that his inventions are still useful. For example, the remote control is something Nikola Tesla made in 1898. That later lead to the remote control for the television. He also made The AC current which allows us to turn on electric devices with the press of a button or flick of a switch. This one is big because without it we would be 20 years behind in our electric technology. According to TeslaUniverse “His discovery of the rotating magnetic field and its application to the generation, transmission and utilization of polyphase alternating currents for power and light brought electrification to the world.” This discovery was made in 1889, only 10 years after the lightbulb. It seems like after 10 years in the 1800s we should’ve found something better after over 100 years. But Nikola Tesla paved the path for electrical science instead of paving a part of the path.