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Nickola Tesla Growing up. By: Maddie Christensen. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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NICKOLA TESLAGROWING UP
By: Maddie Christensen
Nickola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla, was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother, Djuka Mandic, a very intelligent woman although unschooled, was somewhat of an inventor in her own ways of household appliances, some say she created things such as a mechanical eggbeater. Tesla watched his mother invent things to make her everyday housework be a little easier.
Tesla studied engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic
School. In the beginning of his studies he was interested in physics and mathematics, but soon became captivated with electricity. He started off working as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in
1881.
Tesla moved to Strasbourg in 1883, there he privately
built an example of the induction motor and ran it
productively. He was unsuccessful in catching
anyone’s interest in Europe with this device so he
accepted an offer to work for Thomas Edison in New
York.
Tesla came to the United States in 1884. He spent the
next fifty-nine years of his productive life living in New York. While working in the United States he became so eager in improving Edison’s
line of dynamos while working in the lab in New
Jersey that disagreements of opinion with Edison over
direct current (DC) versus alternating current (AC) began. Disagreements
peaked and soon became war.
Tesla went on to working for Westinghouse in 1888
in order to develop the alternating current system. During this
time, electricity was still new and feared by the public due to fires and electric shocks, and it didn’t help that Edison was using scare tactics to scare the community
into believing that alternating current was much more dangerous
than direct current.
Built in 1895 the new hydroelectric power plant transmitted electricity an outstanding twenty miles
away. Large AC generating stations would
eventually connected across the nation and
became the type of power supplied to homes today.
On January 7, 1943, Tesla died at the age of 87 of a heart attack in his bed at
the Hotel New Yorker where he lived. He had never married, he spent his life creating, inventing and discovering. Before his death, he owned over 700 patents, which included the modern
electric motor, remote control, wireless transmission of energy, basic laser and
radar technology, the first neon and fluorescent illumination, the first x-ray
photographs, the wireless vacuum tube, the air-friction speedometer for
automobiles and the Tesla coil, used in radio, T.V. sets, and other electronic
equipment.