Nowadays, we cannot imagine life without technology. Indeed, now everyone in the house has electricity, gas, but how often do we think about what kind of brilliant scientists invented all this? Great chemists, mathematicians, physicists, including the inventor of the light bulb Nikola Tesla, gave this world a new image thanks to their discoveries. In the article you will read about this scientist.
Biography of Nikola Tesla
The great inventor was born on July 10, 1856 in Croatia. He received his primary education first in Smilany, then, after moving, he continued his studies, first at school, then at the Gospic gymnasium. Further, the future physicist entered the school in Karlovac and lived with his aunt.
After graduating from school in 1873, Tesla decides to return home to his family, despite the fact that at that time there was a cholera epidemic. Nicola becomes infected and is near death, but miraculously recovers. In the future, Tesla himself suggested that this was facilitated by the fact that his father allowed him to engage in engineering. After his illness, Nicola began to see flashes of light, with which his future inventions came to his mind. He imagined them and mentally tested them like a computer.
After recovery, the inventor was supposed to go to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army, but his parents, deciding that he was still not he althy enough, hid him in the mountains.
In 1875, Nikola entered the Graz Technical School and began to study electrical engineering. Already in the first courses, Tesla thought about the imperfection of DC machines, but was criticized by the professor. In his third year, the physicist became addicted to gambling. He squandered large amounts of money until his mother began to borrow funds for him from acquaintances. After that, he stopped playing.
Work
Since 1881, Nikola Tesla has served as an engineer at the Budapest Central Telegraph Office. He has the opportunity to see some inventions, as well as think about translating his own ideas into reality. It was here that the great physicist introduced the two-phase AC motor to the world, which was then named after him.
Nikola's inventions made it possible to transmit energy over great distances, powering lighting devices such as light bulbs. Tesla, however, moved to Paris a year later to work for entrepreneur Thomas Edison. His company was engaged in the construction of a power plant at the railway station of the city of Strasbourg, to the mayor of which Nikola will later demonstrate the work of the asynchronous electric motor he invented.
In 1884Tesla leaves for America. He was offended by the fact that he was not paid the promised bonus in Paris. There he starts working as an engineer repairing electric motors in another Edison company.
However, the latter is beginning to annoy the brilliant ideas of the great physicist. As a result of this, a dispute for a million dollars is tied up between them. Nicola managed to win, but Edison reduced everything to a joke and did not pay the money. After that, Tesla quit and became unemployed. Salvation for him was an acquaintance with the American engineer Brown Thompson, thanks to whom more people began to learn about the young physicist.
Activity Development
In 1888, Tesla meets the American industrialist and entrepreneur George Westinghouse, who buys most of his inventions from him, and then invites him to work, but is refused by a physicist who does not want to limit his freedom.
Until 1895, Nikola Tesla researched magnetic fields. He also receives an invitation from the Institute of Electrical Engineers to give a lecture, which subsequently had an unprecedented success.
At the end of the same year, Nikola's laboratory burned down with all the inventions, but he claimed that he would be able to restore everything.
Private life
Despite his remarkable appearance, intelligence and amazing character, the inventor never married. In his opinion, a scientist should give up his personal life for the sake of scientific inventions, because this is incompatible. Moreover, he neverthere was no permanent place of residence: he stayed in hotels or rented apartments.
How Tesla lit light bulbs
Nikola had many inventions. However, most know him because Tesla invented the light bulb. In addition, he was an amazing person who could do physical tricks. These include the trick with a light bulb. Tesla lit it in his hand by passing a high voltage through himself.
Nikola is the author of many inventions, without which it is impossible to imagine the modern world. These include an AC motor, Tesla coil, radio, X-rays, Tesla light bulb, laser, plasma ball, and more. His genius and mentality even scared some people.
Memory
In honor of Nikola, several monuments were erected in different cities, his portrait was depicted on banknotes. Streets in some settlements and even a crater on the Moon (in 1970), as well as the Surchinsk airport in the suburbs of Belgrade, are named after the inventor of the Tesla light bulb.
