Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

       Few people recognize his name today, and even among those who do, the
words Nikola Tesla are likly to summon up the image of a crackpot rather than
an authentic scientist. Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the
world has ever known. He was, without doubt, a genius who is not only credited
with many devices we use today, but is also credited with astonishing, sometimes
world-transforming, devices that are even simply amazing by todays scientific
standards.

       Tesla was born at precisely midnight between July 9th and 10th, 1856, in
a small Hungarien village. He was born to his father, a priest, and his mother,
an unschooled but extremely intelligent women. Training for an engineering
career, he attendedthe Technical University of Graz, Austria and was shortly
employed in a government telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made
his first invention, a telephone repeater. Tesla sailed to America in 1884,
arriving in New York City with four cents in his pocket, and many great ideas in
his head. He first found employment with a young Thomas Edison in New Jersey,
but the two inventors, were far apart in background and methods. But, because of
there differences, Tesla soon left the employment of Edison, and in May 1885,
George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh,
bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period,
during which Tesla invented but lost his rights to many inventions, he
established his own laboratory in New York City in 1887, where his inventive
mind could be free. In 1895, Tesla discovered X-rays after hours upon hours of
experimentation. Tesla's countless experiments included work on different power
sources and various types of lightning. The Tesla coil, which he invented in
1891, is widely used today in radio and television sets and other electronic
equipment for wireless communication. That year also marked the date of Tesla's
United States citizenship. Brilliant and eccentric, Tesla was then at the peak
of his inventive powers. He managed to produce new forms of generators,
transformers, he invented the fluorescent light,  and he became extremely
involved with the wireless transmission of power.

       During the 1880a and 1890's Tesla and Edison became rivals, fighting to
develop there inventions as quickly as possible. In 1915 he was severely
disappointed when a report that he and Edison were to share the Nobel Priz...

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