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Biography of Nikola Tesla: Why He Is So Importance to Science?

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There was once a man. He was relatively misunderstood by almost everyone he ever came in contact with. People thought him to be insane and overly hungry for knowledge of the future. He did have a thirst for knowledge involving electricity, physics, and other related sciences, but all of the information he learned helped in the creation of multiple scientific inventions that changed the world. Without Nikola Tesla the world would not be quite as technologically advanced as it is today.
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in the European country of Croatia to Mulutin and Djuka Tesla. His father, Mulutin, was a Serbian Orthodox Priest. His mother, Djuka, was an inventor of various household appliances. Growing up under the influence of his …show more content…

It was located on the land mass in the middle of Niagara Falls called Goat Island. The only remaining power plant house, Adam's Station, which once housed ten 5,000 horsepower generators, has since became a national landmark and a museum.
Tesla's induction motor is described by the Franklin Institute. "In the two-phase motor, two sets of coils are set perpendicular to each other surrounding the core. When alternating current is sent to the coils, they become electromagnets where polarity rapidly changes with each reversal of current flow. As the first coils are supplied with current, they create a magnetic field which starts the core turning. When the first coils' current supply reverses, the second coil set is at its maximum supply point and creates its own magnetic field; the core spins on. In effect the "magnetization" amount never varies and a rotating magnetic field is created. The result is a smooth-running, cummutator-free motor with the rotor as its only moving part" (The Franklin Institute). If done properly, the rotating magnetic field will rotate the permanent magnet. This leads to the conductive disk inducing a voltage and a current flow.
Tesla was also sincerely involved in studying electrical currents. Thomas Edison had invented direct current (DC). Direct current is an electrical flow with only one direction, and everything is connected. Anything that uses a battery like flashlights and remote controls for televisions is considered direct

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