Nikola Tesla was an inventor, electrical engineer, and a physicist and discovered the magnetic field. Tesla Was born in 1856 in what is now Smiljan,Croatia which is a small country in Europe. Tesla gained experience in engineering before immigrating into America in 1884 to work in New York City. He went on to pursue and help develop wireless lighting at a high voltage and frequency. He showed this off in Colorado springs and New York City. In 1900 announced he was going to make wireless transmission for the world from one single wire tower, and in 1901 started and built a lab with a power plant and massive transmission. Sadly he had to abandon the project due to rivals Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi surpassing him in radio wiring. After having a nervous breakdown he finally returned to work as a consultant. He was renowned for his showmanship and even garnering in the popular culture “MAD SCIENTIST” . His 1891 invention of the “Tesla Coil” …show more content…
The legacy of his work still lives on today. Tesla's AC system eventually caught the attention of engineer George Westinghouse, who was seeking solution to long distance power, something Edison's DC power lacked. He believed him so much he bought patents for $60,000 in cash and stock in the Westinghouse Corporation.Unfortunately for Edison the Westinghouse Corp was chosen to supply the lighting at the 1893 world's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Tesla demonstrated his AC system. Two years later in 1895, Tesla invented the first hydroelectric power plants in the United States, at Niagara falls.The following year it was used to power the city of Buffalo, New York and was highly publicized throughout the world. With its constant success and favoritism the alternating current (AC) system would become a preeminent power system of the 20th