Nikola Tesla is dubbed by many as the father of electricity. Tesla was an extreme influence to the research of technology and he started what may have been the greatest technological boom in history. Throughout his life he had been honored with many awards such as the Edison award. Tesla was born in 1856 in Yugoslavia. His father was an orthodox priest, and his mother took care of him and the house. She did not attend school and was therefore not properly educated, but she was still highly intelligent. Tesla was greatly inspired by his mother. She had invented multiple things to help her around the house.
Tesla was expected to become a priest just like his father but his dream and passion was engineering. Tesla became extremely ill of cholera
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“Nikola Tesla developed polyphase alternating current system of generators, motors and transformers and held 40 basic U.S. patents on the system, which George Westinghouse bought, determined to supply America with the Tesla system.” Edison was extremely frustrated with Tesla due to the critiquing of Edison’s work, and Tesla became frustrated because of the relationship between his work and Edison. A war brewed between the two, but sure enough Tesla and the alternate current outdid Edison and the direct …show more content…
When the coil built at this station was energized, sparks over 30 feet would be shot out and they could be seen from ten miles away. The coil sent out waves of energy for miles without using any wires. During his two year stay in Colorado Springs Tesla made what he believed to be his most important discovery; terrestrial station waves. With this discovery he proved that Earth could be used as a conductor. He managed to light up 200 lamps from a distance of 25 miles without using any wires. He even claimed to have gotten a signal from a different planet sent to his lab in Colorado. This claim was seen as ridiculous in numerous scientific