Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American electrical engineer and scientist, is one of the most prolific inventors of our times. His contributions to society include the telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents.
Training for an engineering career, he attended the Technical University at Graz, Austria, and the University of Prague. At Graz, he first saw the Gramme dynamo, which operated as a generator and, when reversed, became an electric motor, and he conceived a way to use alternating current to advantage. Later, at Budapest, he visualized the principle of the rotating magnetic field and developed plans for an induction motor that would become his first step toward the successful utilization of alternating current. In 1882, Tesla went to work in Paris for the Continental Edison Company, and, while on assignment to Strassburg in 1883, he constructed, in after-work hours, his first induction motor. Tesla sailed for America in 1884, arriving in New York, with four cents in his pocket, a few of his own poems, and calculations for a flying machine. He first found employment with Thomas Edison, but the two inventors were far apart in background and methods, and their separation was inevitable.
Tesla's vision laid the foundation for a majority of the conveniences modern technology affords us. However,Tesla was never able to develop a steady revenue stream from his intellectual property to support his ambitious research & development. Tesla died alone in the hotel New Yorker of heart failure in 1943, at the age of 87. Despite selling his AC electricity patents, he was essentially destitute and died with significant debts.
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