He filed a number of electrical patents, which he assigned to the company. Tesla then developed a relationship with two businessmen that led to the founding of Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing. Having achieved the feat, Tesla said he was then told that the offer had just been a joke, and he left the company after six months. in 1884, and he later claimed he was offered the sum of US$50,000 if he could solve a series of engineering problems Edison’s company faced. Wishing to meet Edison himself, Tesla immigrated to the U.S. Nikola Tesla, electrical entrepreneur, circa 1893Īlthough an outstanding student, Tesla eventually withdrew from polytechnic school and ended up working for the Continental Edison Company, where he focused on electrical lighting and motors. During his teen years, he fell seriously ill, recovering once his father abandoned his demand that Nikola become a priest and agreed he could attend engineering school instead. Tesla was born in Croatia on a summer night in 1856, during what he claimed was a lightning storm – which led the midwife to say, “He will be a child of the storm,” and his mother to counter prophetically, “No, of the light.”* As a student, Tesla displayed such remarkable abilities to calculate mathematical problems that teachers accused him of cheating. 7 provides a timely opportunity to review the life of a man who came from nowhere yet became world famous claimed to be devoted solely to discovery but relished the role of a showman attracted the attention of many women but never married and generated ideas that transformed daily life and created multiple fortunes but died nearly penniless. The 75th anniversary of Tesla’s death on Jan. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology. Claimed to have developed a “superweapon” that would end all war.Developed the underlying technology for wireless communication over long distances.
Produced the first motor that ran on AC current.Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla – with these biographical facts:
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