Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, the man from the future
Here's a time line of Nikola Tesla's life:
- 1856 - 10 July Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)
- 1861 - Tesla attended primary school in Smiljan where he studied German, arithmetic, and religion.
- 1862 - the Tesla family moved to the nearby Gospić, where Tesla's father worked as parish priest.
- 1870 - Nikola completed primary school, followed by middle school.
- 1882 - Tivadar Puskás got Tesla another job in Paris with the Continental Edison Company. Tesla began working in what was then a brand new industry, installing indoor incandescent lighting citywide in large scale electric power utility.
- 1884 - Edison manager Charles Batchelor, who had been overseeing the Paris installation, was brought back to the United States to manage the Edison Machine Works, a manufacturing division situated in New York City, and asked that Tesla be brought to the United States as well.
- 1886 - The investors showed little interest in Tesla's ideas for new types of alternating current motors and electrical transmission equipment. After the utility was up and running in 1886, they decided that the manufacturing side of the business was too competitive and opted to simply run an electric utility.
- 1887 - Tesla developed an induction motor that ran on alternating current (AC), a power system format that was rapidly expanding in Europe and the United States because of its advantages in long-distance, high-voltage transmission
- 1889 - Tesla traveled to the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris and learned of Heinrich Hertz's 1886–1888 experiments that proved the existence of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves.
- 1895 - Edward Dean Adams, impressed with what he saw when he toured Tesla's lab, agreed to help found the Nikola Tesla Company, set up to fund.
- 1896 - after hearing of Röntgen's discovery of X-ray and X-ray imaging (radiography),[129] Tesla proceeded to do his own experiments in X-ray imaging.
- 1901 - Tesla had expanded his plans to build a more powerful transmitter to leap ahead of Marconi's radio-based system, which Tesla thought was a copy of his own.
- 1906 - Tesla demonstrated a 200 horsepower (150 kilowatts) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine.
- 1931 - a young journalist whom Tesla befriended, Kenneth M. Swezey, organized a celebration for the inventor's 75th birthday.
- 1934 - Tesla told reporters he had designed a superweapon he claimed would end all war.
- 1943 - at the age of 86, Tesla died alone in Room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker.
“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
-- Nikola Tesla