Nikola Tesla's Later Life A a young man, Nikola Tesla went to school at the Technical University in Graz, Austria, and later went to college at the University of Prague.
When Nikola Tesla came to America, he had four cents in his pocket and an imagination full of inventions. He first went to Thomas Edison with his wonderful invention of an AC motor. Edison, however, said the idea was ridiculous, and turned young Tesla away. This was probably because the AC motor competed with Edison's DC motor (even though Tesla's AC motor was better). George Westinghouse, who was competing against Edison in the race to develop electricity, was interested in Tesla and his AC motor. He bought the AC motor patent from Tesla, and three years later, it was making power from Niagara Falls! Nikola experimented with x-rays, vacuum tubes, transistors, and even the wireless radio before anyone else even thought of it. He is not very well known, however, because many other inventors stole his ideas and took credit for them. For example, Marconi took credit for inventing the radio and Edison took credit for his AC motor, even though he NEVER worked with it! After a full life of inventions and discoveries, Nikola Tesla died January 7, 1943 of a heart faliure. He died in a hotel in New York, New York at the age of 86. |
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Nikola Tesla's Nicknames
Nikola Tesla was called...
"Man out of His Time"
"Father of Physics"
"The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century"
"Wizard of the West"
"Modern Prometheus"
"The Genius who Lit the World"
"Man out of His Time"
"Father of Physics"
"The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century"
"Wizard of the West"
"Modern Prometheus"
"The Genius who Lit the World"