NIKOLA TESLA by Heidy Perez

heidyperezcarino — 2024-07-25 06:38:09 UTC

The only award Tesla received during his lifetime was, ironically, the Edison Medal, the IEEE's highest honor.

heidyperezcarino — 2024-07-25 06:41:44 UTC

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian engineer, scientist and inventor.
He is considered one of the genius precursors of numerous technological areas.
Tesla was educated in Orthodox Christianity, but throughout his life he felt an inclination and true respect for other religions such as Buddhism and Catholicism. Tesla was born in the Serbian town of Smiljan, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, currently Croatia. His parents were Milutin Tesla, a priest of the Orthodox Christian Church, and Duka Mandici, a housewife and self-taught scientist.
Tesla died in the United States, at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel, on January 7, 1943.

heidyperezcarino — 2024-07-25 06:45:51 UTC

In 1880 he worked in Budapest at a telegraph company, where he was chief electrician and where he met a young Serbian inventor named Nebojša Petrović with whom he undertook his first projects.
In 1886 Tesla founded his own company: Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. However, some discrepancies from investors regarding certain projects for the development of an alternating current motor led them to fire him from his own company. That did not stop him and during the following years he developed the greatest inventions of his life, working with George Westinghouse in your company.
In 1891 he became an American citizen and set up his laboratory in New York. A year later the first patents were granted to him and he was later elected vice president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.