Who was Nikolas Tesla?
One of the greatest geniuses who set foot in the world
Nikolas Tesla, also known as “The genius who lit up the world,” had the ambition to get all the people of the world to receive free and unlimited energy. In 1875, Tesla received a scholarship to the Graz Polytechnic in Styria. It was in this city that he devoted himself body and soul to the study of electricity. Until then, it was thought that the electric current was nothing more than something mysterious that flowed through the wire.
Tesla applied (or tried to apply) a new system: alternating current. In the case of an alternating current generator, a magnet would rotate in the center and produce current in coils that, located on the outside, would cause the electric current to form on the outside, static, of the generator (a direct current generator, on the contrary, produces current thanks to a permanent magnet and a coil that rotates in the device itself).
Tesla owes the induction coil that ushered in the radio era. He was also the builder of the transmission system that transports electricity to our homes, the remote control, wireless telegraphy, the rays of violet light, and the MAGNETIC RESONANCE.
All this without mentioning his dream engineering work, but later bankrupt, forgotten, and even destroyed, the project “Wardenclyffe”, which had the purpose of providing free and cable-free energy to the whole world. In the early 1980s, while working for a telephone company in Budapest, he thought of an innovative engine where external coils, traversed by alternating current flow, generated a rotating magnetic field.
This is precisely how the forces that set the internal rotor in motion are generated. Tesla arrived in New York in 1885. He only had a book full of calculations, thousands of ideas in his mind, a few poems, and four cents in his pocket, but he knew very well what he wanted to achieve.
A year later he had already sold the patent of the alternative current engine to George Westinghouse and was immersed in what was known as the “chain war”, linked to his arch-enemy Thomas Edison.
“They called me crazy when I announced in 1896 the discovery of cosmic rays. Repeatedly they made fun of me when I had discovered something new and then years later I saw that I was right” — Nikolas Tesla
Tesla was a great genius and contributes a lot to our world in the years he lived. This is a tribute to the man he was.
