Nikola Tesla: The man ahead of his time
When we think of the greatest inventors that existed by the end of the late 19th and early 20th, many famous names come to our mind, among them Thomas Edison, John Logie Baird and Guillermo Marconi, but there is one scientific that despite his monumental inventions, has been often overlooked, nearly forgotten, his name was Nikola Tesla and he was the father of Lighting. Tesla was born on July 10 1856, in the Village of Smiljan, province of Lika, Croatia. “His father was a stern but loving Orthodox priest, who was also a gifted writer and poet. At a young age, Tesla immersed himself in his father's library. Tesla's mother was a hard working woman of many talents who created appliances to help with home and farm responsibilities” . Nikola was always interested in becoming an engineer, but he was opposed by his father ideas, who wanted him to enter to the priesthood. When he was about to turn eighteen, he contracted cholera and almost die, yet, he was smart enough to make his father promised him to attend the Austrian Polytechnic School at Graz. It was Tesla Highest ambition and most ardent wish to come to America in order to try to get his Alternant Current motor working, he had previously failed in Germany and Franc
At the height of World War Two, Tesla claimed that he invented a powerful "death beam" that could destroy attacking aircraft. He proposed a system of beam weapons to protect the borders of the United States and other European nations. When he died, most of Tesla's technical papers mysteriously disappeared, and many have not been found since. In 1900, Tesla began construction on Long Island of a wireless world broadcasting tower, with $150,000 capital from the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Tesla claimed he secured the loan by assigning 51 percent of his patent rights of telephony and telegraphy to Morgan. He expected to provide worldwide communication and to furnish facilities for sending pictures, messages, weather warnings, and stock reports. The project was abandoned because of a financial panic, labor troubles, and Morgan's withdrawal of support. It was Tesla's greatest defeat. Tesla soon established his own laboratory, where his inventive mind could be given free rein. Tesla's countless experiments included work on a carbon button lamp, on the power of electrical resonance, and on various types of lighting, such a first neon and fluorescents illumination. He also took the first x-ray photographs. Quickly he invented a wireless vacuum tube being this discovery, the beginning of Tesla’s lifelong obsession, The Wireless Transmition of Energy.
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