Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856 in Smiljan. He died January 7, 1943 in New York City. He attended the schools, Graz University of Technology and Charles University in Prague. The awards he received in sciences was the Edison Medal, Elliot Cresson Medal, and John Scott Award. Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electrical supply system. The Edison Medal he received he thought of as an insult since he didn't like Thomas Edison because of verbal abuse he had taken from him. Tesla even thought of an idea of using energy waves(known as RADAR today) to detect German submarines but Edison thought that was a "ludicrous" idea. Many people told Tesla his inventions were impossible but he ended up making them anyway. His mind was also very good at holding large amounts of information. He could recite complete books from memory and all the ideas of his inventions were from his head, rather than writing them down. All the inventions conceived from Tesla were the radio, radar, the induction motor, the Tesla coil, alternating current dynamos, arc light systems, and electric vehicles. Also, many of his concepts we made real today were X-ray machines, telegeodynamics, robotics, and early computer-logic principles. Tesla thought of making a death ray that could destroy 10,000 airplanes 250 miles away. There are theories that he succeeded this invention, but knowing the power of it and how people would use it in war, he destroyed it. Our technology would be nowhere without Tesla. He's a genius and I'm glad he kept doing what he loved even if no one believed in him.