The Misunderstood Life And Inventions of Nikola Tesla
On July 1856, in Croatia, a baby boy was born; this boy would grow to be a man who would revolutionize science, create miracles with science and physics, and create overall amazing inventions. This was the birth of a hero, Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla was born into a well established clan by the name of Draganic. In Tesla’s early childhood, he had a great enemy, a goose, which attacked him each time it saw him. He had a couple of aunts who loved him, and thought he loved them back (but really he hated them, and was never comfortable around them). When Tesla’s brother died, he had nightmares, and stressed himself about it. Tesla’s personality was very unique; no one to this day has had
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“Tesla’s greatest breakthrough was to invent an AC motor,” and it used his idea of a rotating magnetic field. There are two types of electric motors, AC and DC. AC can travel further distances and is much more efficient than DC. AC is a flow of electric charge that regularly reverses its direction of flow (a terminal can stop this, and change AC into DC). The electrons in an AC moves back and forth sixty times a second, so the terminals of the supply repeatedly change from positive to negative. AC flows in two directions not one, it only flows in one direction at a time, and switches the direction it’s flowing in. During the twenty-first century, AC has been generally used in homes and the appliances in …show more content…
Bachelar recommended Tesla, when he was seeking for a job, to an American company called The Edison Company. On the way to America, two men knocked him over, and stole everything he had, and ran off. Tesla used the change in his pocket to pay for the train ride; to the boat dock. Tesla arrived in America exhausted but exhilarated, with a lump on his head, a bandage on his thumb, and only four cents left in his pocket. Mr. Bachelor’s letter of introduction said, “I know two great men, one is you, the other is this young man.” Mr. Edison gave him the job instantly. Tesla tried to convince Edison that AC was better than DC, but Edison told him it was not worth meddling with AC, DC was the way to go. After awhile, Tesla and Edison got in an argument, Tesla quit his job, and both of them started having a propaganda war about which was better, AC or