New Delhi: Nikola Tesla is unarguably one of the greatest inventors in history, whose works profoundly impacted us. The Serbian-American electrical engineer and mechanical engineer is remembered for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Today is his birth anniversary and in this article, we will look at this great man’s life.
The rise of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, a village in Croatia which was then a part of the Austrian Empire. His father was a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in the 1870s, Tesla first studied physics and engineering. While he did not get a degree, he gained practical experience in the early 1880s while working at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry.
In 1884, he went to the US and became a naturalized citizen. He was employed at the Edison Machine Works in New York City. But Tesla had ambitions of his own and with the help of some finances, he established laboratories and companies in New York to develop several electrical and mechanical devices. He earned a fortune through his AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents.
Tesla, his experiments and inventions
Tesla extensively experimented with mechanical oscillators or generators, early X-ray imaging and electrical discharge tubes and also created a wirelessly controlled boat. He gained fame as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to wealthy patrons and celebrities. He pursued his ideas for wireless lighting throughout the 1890s and worked for worldwide wireless electric power distribution. In 1893, he talked about the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use but ran out of funds.
In the 1910s and the 1920s, he experimented with several inventions and found varying degrees of success. He blew most of his money on those experiments and was forced to live in New York hotels. After he passed away in January 1943 in New York City, Tesla’s work fell into relative obscurity until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures honoured him by naming the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the ‘tesla’. Since the 1990s, interest in Tesla once again made a comeback in the popular narrative.
Tesla extensively experimented with mechanical oscillators or generators, early X-ray imaging and electrical discharge tubes and also created a wirelessly controlled boat. He gained fame as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to wealthy patrons and celebrities. knowledge Knowledge News, Photos and Videos on General Knowledge
