Father of Radio who electrified the world:
Electricity, something that the modern world is so dependent upon today that we can't even imagine life without it. Or maybe we don't want to. Born in 1856, Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American genius who was an inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, physicist and a futurist, all in the true sense of these terms. Apart from paving the way to electrify the modern world, Nikola Tesla had produced over 700 patents. Most of his inventions which came in the 19th century are still in use today, working exactly the way they worked a century ago, with very little changes. They include wireless remote control, used to operate everything from a TV to a bomb; an electric starter for automobiles that is still in use today and called the automobile ignition system; and then the radio. Yes, the radio. Isn't that Marconi who invented the radio? Marconi may have been the first to transmit a signal across the Atlantic. But in reality, he used 17 of Tesla's patents. On June 21,
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Edison, frustrated over loosing the contract, refused the use of his light bulbs to light the fair. So Tesla needed to come up with a new light bulb, and make 250,000 of them in 6 months time. Tesla not only was able to design a light bulb that didn't interfere with Edison's patents, he was able to beat Edison in his own game and design one that was easy to manufacture in a short amount of time. Such was the genius of Tesla, for whom it took only 6 months to create what Edison toiled to create for years, that too with an industrial research centre at his disposal. Not only that, Tesla displayed in the fair, a fluorescent bulb, which burned much cooler, and lasted longer than Edison's incandescent bulb. It was a forerunner of today's longer lasting, efficient lighting. This is what Tesla remarked about