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Nikola Tesla Research Paper

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Nikola Tesla, an engineer and inventor, led the electrical industry to the cutting edge of technology. Tesla's most important invention, alternating current (AC) electricity, remains the global standard of electricity today. He also made major contributions for the X-ray, wireless radio, and devices ranging from microwave ovens to MX missiles. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was a priest and his mother created appliances to help with farm work. Tesla stated his inventive creativity came from his mother. Tesla wanted to be an engineer, but his father insisted he enter priesthood. At age seventeen, Nikola Tesla caught cholera (an infection of the small intestine caused by bacteria). …show more content…

He went to build the radio, but misfortune followed. In 1895, a fire burned his laboratory, and inventor Guglielmo Marconi transmitted across the Atlantic. Tesla's life got worse when the invention of the radio was given to Marconi in 1904, while he was using 17 of Tesla's patents. When Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1911, Tesla sued Marconi for infringement, but his efforts were in vain. It wasn't until after Tesla's death, that the Supreme Court gave back his patents. In 1898, Tesla made the first remote controlled vehicle: a boat. This invention created the birth of RC vehicles. Some people suggested it for wartime use, but Tesla wanted a peaceful use. Around 1890, he created artificial lightning. In 1904 he erected a 187 foot tall tower to transmit radio waves, which eventually failed, due to lack of funding. In 1914, he developed the radar idea, and in 1922 received his last patent: an airplane-helicopter hybrid. He attempted to make an anti-war beam, but failed to receive support. Tesla spent his final years feeding pigeons, broke and …show more content…

He and Edison were rivals, but not enemies
Many think Tesla and Edison were enemies, but that is actually false. On one occasion, Edison slipped into a conference Tesla was holding. He had attempted to hide, but Tesla saw him, pointed him out, and convinced the crowd to a standing ovation. Also, they eventually gained a mutual respect towards each other, after Tesla left to work on his own. When Tesla's lab burned down, Edison provided a lab for him.
3. In 1901, Tesla developed the idea for smartphone technology
During the race to create the transatlantic radio, Tesla told his financial backer, J.P.Morgan, a way to funnel stock quotes and messages, encode them with a new frequency, and broadcast to a device that can fit in your hand( the smartphone). He envisioned this and wireless internet, but this idea eventually stopped in his tracks.
4. Tesla had famous friends
Nikola Tesla was friends with famous people such as John Muir, a conservationist who worked with Theodore Roosevelt to save create national parks, and Mark Twain, a famous author. John Muir was impressed by Tesla's hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls, commenting that it was "clean energy".
5. Tesla had a photographic

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