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Nikola Tesla Research Paper

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Nikola Tesla Born July 10, 1856 meaning that if he was still alive today he would be 158 years old. He was a serbian-american his mom’s name was Duka Tesla she made small household appliances. His father’s name is Mulitin Tesla he was a orthodox priest and also urged his son to join the priesthood ,but Nikola refused to instead he was more interested in science. His interests were spurred by his mother. He studied at Realschule; Karlstadt this college is located in Graz Austria. He went to college during the 1870s Tesla worked at a telephone exchange before leaving from Europe to America at 28 years of age. Thomas Edison this famous inventor sent mail to Tesla when he came to the U.S together they worked tirelessly. Then they split up mainly …show more content…

After the two parted ways with each other Tesla received funding from his company to create arc lighting. Arc lighting is a lamp or light bulb that produces light by an electrical arc. Tesla had to work as a manual laborer in order to survive. In 1887 Tesla became interested in the AC Electrical System; he got funding from his company that forced him out into manual labor. At the end of the year he got several patents for AC inventions. Tesla’s AC invention patents were bought by George Westinghouse for $60,000 in cash and stock in the Westinghouse Corporation. Also because of this Tesla was put in direct competition with Thomas Edison who was intent on selling his direct-current systems to the nation, Edison soon started running a campaign that was negatively directed at Tesla in undermining the AC power. Tesla found no disregard and continued his working on his inventions that got seven more patents during that time, not limited but including the infamous Tesla Coil which works with wireless technological things we use in radios technology today. But to Thomas Edison’s Dismay the Westinghouse Corp. was chosen to supply the lights at the 1893 worlds Columbia exposition held in Chicago were Tesla demonstrated the AC …show more content…

His estate was sent to storage and Warehouse Company under Office of alien property (OAP) seal. The Professor at M.I.T named John G. Trump had analyzed Tesla’s belongings he was aiding the National Defense Research Committee and was called to analyze by the OAP who had it belongings in their custody, after three days of the investigation they concluded that Tesla wasn’t a harm neither were any of his Belongings. Nikola Tesla suffered Nervous Breakdowns but he was still working and he acquired the attention of the FBI because of the tower he talked about frequently which interested the Soviet Union during the World War 2. He lived in New York City 60 years of his life he died a poor and reclusive death by coronary Thrombosis but his legacy being the Wardenclyffe Place. There are books and films dedicated to him like “Nikola Tesla, The Genius who Lit the World’ the documentary that’s dedicated from the TMS (Tesla Memorial Society) and the NTM (Nikola Tesla Museum) in Belgrade Serbia; also The Secret of Nikola Tesla, The prestige. The road that’s dedicated to Nikola Tesla is called the “Nikola Tesla Corner” near the site in his former New York City

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