Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Teslawas a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating currentelectricity supply system...
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth10 July 1856
CitySmiljan, Croatia
running uncles fall
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.
running uncles fall
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.
intelligent long wire
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.
simple engineering doubt
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
simple engineering doubt
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.