Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, Croatian Military Frontier in Austrian Empire (today's Croatia), he was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen.[1] After his demonstration of wireless communication through radio in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America.[2] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture,[3] but because of his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist.[4][5] Tesla never put much focus on his finances and died impoverished at the age of 86.[6]

The International System of Units unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla, was named in his honor (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960), as well as the Tesla effect of wireless energy transfer to wireless powered electronic devices (which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale with incandescent light bulbs as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial power levels in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project).

Aside from his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar, and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics,[7] and theoretical physics. A few of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism.

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[ChiLLipowa]

Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 October 26, 1923) was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to design better electric motors for use in industry

[lunadalionly1]

Edison was such an asshole electricuting elephants. He should have electrocuted himself.

[underted]

Poor stray animals! What a horrible man! Boo to Edison. Tesla was obviously a genius. He was also obviously suffering with some kind of mental illness (poor guy)...what a shame. He was a legend. Thank you ChiLLipowa for uploading this very interesting story.

[mickeypopa]

Tesla was Serbian (born of Serbian mother and Serbian father) in Croatia.

And that's where it stops.

To all the people saying he was Croat I can simply say - get a brain.

[InfiniteUniverse88]

2:45 NYC didn't have skyscrapers in 1884.

[MrZibr]

Nikola Tesla is Croat and Serb so stop with this bullshits

[jebovasgugl]

@DeeJayVonSpeek

i ne treba nam, mi se jos s parnim masinama mlatimo...

[DeeJayVonSpeek]

@jebovasgugl tocno... zato pola srbije nema struju =D

[DeeJayVonSpeek]

@jebovasgugl zato pola srbije nema struju =D

[jebovasgugl]

I was born in Croatia too, and I am a Serb too. Like thousands of Serbs. Croatia is just a political territory.

[1vasbec1]

He was a Serb and his father was a serb. In each book, document or other things he writes that he was a Serb. He said that he was a Serb. But is he a Serb or Croat is not important. Important is that he was the greatest invetor ever.