This article is a tribute to Nikola Tesla who’s lifestyle and inventions lead us to name our Theme Club after him. I wasn’t sure if many of us know so many things about this Genius, this might be due to a vast propaganda war against Tesla’s inventions started by Thomas Edison. That may also explain why relatively little is written or taught about Tesla to this day.

Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 to Serbian parents in the village of Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)*
He was educated at the Austrian Polytechnic School at Graz and the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia, where for four years he studied physics mathematics, and mechanics. Endowed with a remarkable memory, Tesla learned to speak six languages and could perform calculus equations mentally while still a student. Not only did he possess a photographic memory, he was able to use creative visualization with an uncanny yet practical intensity. The unit of “Magnetic Flux Density” is officially called a “Tesla.”

At the age of 28 he arrived in New York to work for Thomas Edison. Edison’s DC power station in Lower Manhattan had strung sagging wires throughout the district, which was hungry for electric light. Tesla quickly improved Edison’s systems, but Edison refused to pay him the promised $50,000. Tesla quit.

From this point he started to focus on his inventions. Further I will highlight his greatest achievments that have influenced our civilization.

1. AC Motor
2. Rotating Magnetic Field
3. Tesla coil
4. Radio

Want to end this post with a note written by Nikola Tesla in his diary on July 1934
”The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”

Source* Wikipedia