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Nikola Tesla: The Light of the Century Inventors are very crucial to our society because they have helped us compose the present we know today. They are the very foundation of civilization. Inventors create the very future and specialize in innovations, and they efficiently propel the advancement of humanity. Some of them have left legacies that are immortally intact and impossible to forget, yet some names have been forgotten. One of the men that sparked the modern world was Nikola Tesla with his ingenuity and his good intentions for improvement. Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia to a Serbian orthodox priest and a stay-at-home mother. He considered his mother a very intelligent lady, even though she didn’t have a formal education. …show more content…

He never returned to formal education and never earned an academic degree (Kent, 38). He was the only man in the family, so he had to support his mother and sisters economically, so he moved to Budapest, Hungary. In Budapest, he began working in the Hungarian Central Telegraph Office as a draftsman. In “Budapest Tesla learned from about Edison’s already voluminous and momentous achievements. He also studied the principle of induction, and his spare time, worked on the problem of getting rid of the commutator and inventing the alternating current induction motor “(Kent, …show more content…

“He got patents on his alternating motor and impressed the American Institution of Electrical Engineers with a lecture which explained his idea. George Westinghouse, a competitor of the famous Edison, gave Tesla a million dollars for the patent rights to his motor” (Kent, 245). Nikola Tesla needed a sponsor so George Westinghouse offered his hand because he was convinced with Tesla’s alternating current. In 1893’s World’s Columbian Exposition, the Westinghouse Corporation was chosen to supply the lighting and Tesla conducted demonstrations of his alternating current. Two years later, Tesla designed what was among the first AC hydroelectric power plants in the United States, at Niagara Falls. In 1886, it was used to power the city of Buffalo, New York, an act that was heard of around the world (Biography.com

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