Nikola Tesla and the War of Currents Nikola Tesla was a really smart guy. He was so smart that he was going to receive a Nobel prize along with Thomas edison. They started a war call the war of currents and their controversy ruined both of their chances of getting Nobel prizes. Getting to know a little more about Nikola Tesla, he was born in smiljan, croatia. People liked to call him wizard of the west(nickname). Nikola Tesla was highly educated in the field of mathematics, physics, and mechanics, and he was taught all of this at the Polytechnic institute at Gratz. Nikola Tesla was the man who created the idea of AC ( alternating currents). When he died, he died all alone by himself in 1943. Before he died, he obtained 112 patents. He invented …show more content…
Thomas Edison had him help him on a lot of things. After a while Nikola Tesla got his own funding. He ended up opening up his own laboratories and companies. Thomas Edison didn’t like this at all so and Nikola Tesla came up with the idea of alternating currents and Thomas Edison got really mad. Thomas Edison was determined to show people that Direct current was way more efficient than alternating currents. Thomas Edison was being beat in all sorts of ways in terms of his direct current being worse than alternating currents. He decided to show people the danger of alternating currents so he electrocuted a whole elephant.
Starting off with Alternating currents. Nikola Tesla came up with the idea of Alternating currents and it was brilliant. Alternating currents are electric charges that periodically reverse direction and it is transmitted to customers by a transformer that could handle much higher voltages. Alternating currents can be run through car motors, household appliances, and radio signals. The voltages of Alternating Currents are so strong that it can electrocute an elephant to death. Direct currents were trying to out match Alternating currents but it wasn’t going out as planned for Thomas