ABOUT HIM
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is a great science legend and one of great inventor of human history. Due to him, we cannot imagine our life without electricity. Due to him we have electric current in our home. His visionary is the main reason, where our technology is now. His greatest achievement is Poly phase alternating system, due to which the world has its lighting capacity. July 10 is known as Tesla day in new-York and other states of USA. At 1997, Life Magazine issued, Tesla is among 100 famous people of last 1000 years. He registered more than 700 patents worldwide. He has vision of utilization solar energy and the power of sea. He foresaw interplanetary communications and satellites.
EARLY LIFE-
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household appliances.
Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. 1st He wanted to have his carrier with physics and mathematics. But after he decided to make his carrier with electrical technology. From his early youth time he was gifted with intense power of visualization and exceptional memory.
He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881.At that time he got the principle of induction motor. He designed dynamos, in Continental Edison Company in Paris. At Strassbourg in 1883, he built a prototype of the induction motor and ran it.
LIFE AS AN INNOVATOR-
Nekola Tesla was coming America in 1884 to work for Thomas Edision. While improving Edison’s line dynamo at Edison’s lab at New Jersey, they had different point of view between Direct current and alternating current. Due to use of D.C power can transmitted to few mile. And Edison’s lamp was inefficient with direct current.
That’s why he decided to transmit power with ac for log distance.
He delivered the note of “A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers” to American institute of Electrical Engineer before 1888.At that year, the partnership between Tesla and George Westinghouse was begun. Westinghouse, who was also a inventor and industrialist, was deeply influenced by Nikola’s talent. At 1891 he invented “Tesla coil”, which is today use in Television, radio or in other electronic Equipments.
At 1895, he designed worlds 1st Hydro Electric Power Plant in Niagara Falls.In 1896 Tesla constructed an instrument to receive radio waves. He experimented with this device and transmitted radio waves from his laboratory on South 5th Avenue. to the Gerlach Hotel at 27th Street in Manhattan. The device had a magnet which gave off intense magnetic fields up to 20,000 lines per centimeter.
In his Colorado Springs experimental station at Colorado, he was experiment the high voltage and high frequency of electricity through Tesla Coil. He created 30 feet long spark by it.He discovered terrestrial stationary waves; through it he showed that earth can be use as a conductor. He lighted 200 lamps without wires within 40 kilometers.
With finance support of J. Pierpont Morgan, Tesla built Wardenclyffe laboratory and 1st wireless signal and power transmission tower in Shore ham.Tesla's concept of wireless electricity was used to power ocean liners, destroy warships, run industry and transportation and send communications instantaneously all over the globe.
Not only in Electrical, but also he invented lots of things in other fields. Like the fluorescent light , laser beam, wireless communications, wireless transmission of electrical energy, remote control, robotics-RAY, Tesla’s turbines and vertical takeoff aircraft are his another discoveries. Tesla invented the special vacuum tube which emitted light to be used in photography.
AWARD & OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
IN 1915, Both Tesla and Edison were nominated as winner of Nobel Prize for physics.Neither Tesla nor Edison did not receive the award.
In 1917, Tesla was awarded the Edison Medal, the most specious electrical prize in the United States.
Nikola Tesla’s name has been honored with an International Unit of Magnetic Flux Density called “Tesla."
Tesla is known as the inventor of poly-phase alternating current.
Nikola Tesla statue is located on Goat Island to give him honor for his Niagara Falls power station.
On his 75th birthday in 1931, the inventor appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. On this occasion, Tesla received congratulatory letters from more than 70 pioneers in science and engineering including Albert Einstein. These letters were mounted and presented to Tesla in the form of a testimonial volume.
Tesla was inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 1975.
The Nikola Tesla Award is one of the most distinguished honors presented by the Institute of Electrical Engineers. The award has been given annually since 1976.
The Nikola Tesla Corner Sign, located at the intersection of 40th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, is a memorable place of this legend.
LAST TIME
He was never marriage. His total bachelor life , he was given to science.Tesla died on January 7th, 1943 in the Hotel New Yorker, where he had lived for the last ten years of his life. He was cremated in Ardsley on the Hudson, New York. His ashes were interned in a golden sphere, Tesla’s favorite shape, on permanent display at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade along with his death mask.
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