preview

Nikola Tesla Research Paper

Decent Essays
Open Document

Nikola Tesla made many popular and useful inventions. One of those inventions was the radio. It had multiple uses and helped many people with many things. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He was born on July 10, 1856. He lived in Smilijan Croatia with his mother and father, who was a priest. He had four siblings one brother and three sisters. Tela's interest in electrical invention was most likely encouraged by his mother, who made gadgets in her free time. Nikola Tesla went on to study at Realshule Karlstadt a Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria. He also studied at the University of Prague. He also won multiple awards like the Elliott Cresson Medal and the John Scott Legacy Medal and premium. He wrote multiple books and magazine an journal articles. Nikola Tesla invented the radio …show more content…

He built a model ship that was guided by radio signals. He dubbed it “teleautomaton” to the public during a electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden. He had a patent on radio remote control of vehicles and ships. Tesla also tried to sell it to the U.S. Military as a kind of radio controlled torpedo. The military showed little interest in his idea. Remote radio control remained a novelty until World War I and afterward. The radio's development was encouraged by two other inventions the telegraph and the telephone. Many devices such as the Tesla Coil were also used in further development of the radio. All three inventions are very much alike. Radio technology began as “wireless

Get Access