Remembering Nikola Tesla on His Birthday 10th July

 It's birthday of the Genius who invented 20th century, #NikolaTesla, the father of Modern Electricity --

(10 July)

Tesla was a #mysterious man who could see far into the #future. Although deprivileged, he died with a passion for science that changed the 20th century. Still, only a few years ago, the world started to appreciate what he did for mankind. But he wouldn’t mind it

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Tesla was born in what is now Croatia on a summer night in 1856, during what he claimed was a #lightning_storm – which led the midwife to say, “He will be a child of the storm,” and his mother to counter prophetically, “No, of the light.”

He discovered and patented the #rotating_magnetic_field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. In 1891 he invented the Tesla #coil, an induction coil widely used in radio, TV & in other technologies.

In 1898 Tesla announced his invention of a #teleautomatic_boat guided by #remote_control. When skepticism was voiced, Tesla proved his claims for it before a crowd in Madison Square Garden.

In Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he stayed from May 1899 until early 1900, Tesla made what he regarded as his most important discovery—terrestrial stationary waves. By this discovery he proved that #Earth could be used as a #conductor and made to resonate at a certain electrical frequency. He also lit 200 lamps #without_wires from a distance of 40 km (25 miles) and created man-made lightning, producing flashes measuring 41 metres (135 feet). At one time he was certain he had received #signals from #another_planet in his Colorado laboratory, a claim that was met with derision in some scientific journals.

In 1900 (New York), Tesla began construction on Long Island of a #wireless world broadcasting tower, with $150,000 capital from the American financier #J_Pierpont_Morgan. Tesla claimed he secured the loan by assigning 51% of his patent rights of telephony and telegraphy to Morgan. He expected to provide worldwide communication and to furnish facilities for sending pictures, messages, weather warnings, and stock reports. The project was abandoned because of a financial panic, labour troubles, and Morgan’s withdrawal of support. It was Tesla’s greatest defeat.

On his 75th birthday (1931), he received a congratulatory letter from #Einstein and was featured on the cover of #Time magazine.

Three Nobel Prize recipients addressed their tribute to “one of the outstanding intellects of the world who paved the way for many of the technological developments of modern times.”

Tesla was a remarkable person. He said that he had a #photographic memory, which helped him memorize whole books and speak eight languages. He also claimed that many of his best ideas came to him in a #flash, and that he saw detailed pictures of many of his inventions in his #mind before he ever set about constructing prototypes.

In the popular imagination, Tesla played the part of a mad scientist. He claimed that :-

1) he had developed a motor that ran on #cosmic_rays.

2) he was working on a new #non_Einsteinian_physics that would supply a new form of energy.

3) he had discovered a new technique for #photographing thoughts.

4) he had developed a new ray, alternately labeled the #death_ray and the #peace_ray, with vastly greater military potential than Nobel’s munitions.

The SI unit of magnetic flux density, the tesla, named in his honor.

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