Nikola Tesla Research Paper

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Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, to a Djuka Mandic and Milutin Tesla, in what is now Smiljan, Croatia. Tesla's interest in electrical invention came from his mother she invented small household appliances in her spare time while Nikola was growing up. His father was a priest and a writer, and pushed for him to join the priesthood, but he had no interest in it. Tesla studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria; and the University of Prague during the 1870s. He then moved to Budapest where he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange. While in Budapest the idea for the induction motor first came to Tesla but no one showed interest in his idea. At the age of 28 he decided to leave Europe for America. Tesla arrived in the United …show more content…

Today, we take many advantages of alternating current for granted. Most of us grew up with electric heat, lighting, and outlets in our homes. Alternating current powers most of our modern electric appliances including our refrigerators, freezers, washers and dryers, heaters, ovens, microwaves, water heaters, and almost all of the lighting in our homes. Alternating current's impact definitely changed the way people live and changed people's lifestyles into what they are today. It made many people's lives much easier and although it did come with some consequences such as: light pollution, and a very large increase in the use of electrical energy. Although it does provide much more benefit, and that is why it is still used by almost everyone …show more content…

He died penniless and alone in 1943. Nikola Tesla was under appreciated because he failed to make the right business decisions and network well. His qualities exuberance and imagination, the same qualities that helped him come up with some of his most inventive ideas, worked against him portraying him as a bit unstable. Towards his last years, he played with many concepts and ideas that at the time seemed to be bordering on magic, and his obsession with making them happen, discredited many of his experiments and his other achievements, in the eyes of some influential figures of his time. Many of Tesla inventions and patents, didn’t end up being used, in the exact way he intended for them. Some of those include his high frequency lighting ideas, a magnifying transmitter, the free energy receiver, and wireless power. Tesla was the first to come up with the concept of power moving without wires and contributed to the invention of the radio. Tesla's inventions are numerous, and there are more than 250 patents to his name, but he never really enjoyed a big financial success due to them. He had a bigger dream: To provide free energy to all. Some believe some of his inventions were brushed under the rug by corporations to prevent people from enjoying electricity for

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