Cynthia A. Parker - Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

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Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

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Once in a while a genius is born who has a totally different mindset toward creativity, invention, and imagination. At times, the world is ready for such a person, but more often than not, the scientific and public worlds just cannot accept changes to established norms.

Nikola Tesla was one of these men. He was born a century too early, and he understood this. 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 (Jones, 2014).

There is a new wave of Nikola Tesla fans who are pushing to give Tesla the credit he deserves. He produced dozens of inventions in the production, transmission, and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current or A/C motor and developed A/C generation and transmission technology. He invented the induction motor, rotary transformers, and high-frequency alternators, the Tesla oscillator and coil and Tesla pumps as well as devices for lightning protection. He invented turbines for water, steam and gas, and systems for wireless communications. Radio frequency oscillators were his. He also invented insulation, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, polyphase systems, concepts of electric vehicles and devices of high voltage discharges and ionized gasses. He talked to the stars and tried to run the weather. He had a vision to end all wars and developed a death beam.

He was famous, respected, brilliant and broke. Tesla held more than 300 known patents, but was never able to convert his inventions into long-term financial success.

Nikola Tesla was dazzling, and his inventions revolutionized the worlds way of life. He was not the average man. He only needed two to three hours of sleep per night and was known to be a bit of a recluse. At one time, he bragged about working in his laboratory for 84 hours without sleep. He spoke eight languages and could memorize a book at one sitting.

Like many geniuses, Tesla had a peculiar side. He was repulsed by womens jewelry and pearls and had dreams and nightmares of light and dark.

Tesla thought of himself as one who could harness the forces of nature to contribute to human needs. He was an inventor who was often unrewarded and unnoticed, but he found compensation in just inventing. All he wanted was to make life easier for his fellow world citizens.

Tesla said, Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities, it can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas or any other fuel." He pictured electricity as being cosmic, always there; a vast pool of energy. He was and is the master of electricity.

Tesla was a visionary, and most of his contemporary scientist brothers did not understand his technology, experiments and drive to create. He has yet to be adequately credited for his invention of radio, and Edison has always been thought of as the "father of electricity" and for his work in alternating current. Edison did not work with A/C. A/C was Teslas lifelong work.

But not until I had attained manhood did I realize that I was an inventor.

~ N. Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American, best known as an inventor, mechanical engineer, futurist, and an electrical engineer. Born on July 10, 1856, little did his parents know he would one day become a mad scientist.

Born in Smiljan, which was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire region of Croatia, Nikola was the fourth of five children belonging to Milutin Tesla, an Orthodox priest, and Djuka Tesla, a remarkable woman. Ironically, a fierce summer lighting storm was raging in the vicinity as Nikola Tesla was born. Midway through his birth a midwife declared that the lightning was a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said. Nikolas mother replied, No. He will be a child of light, (Johnson, 2013).

Tesla remembers his father as a loving, but stern Orthodox priest. Milutin Tesla had a gift for poetry and was also a published writer and book collector. Teslas father was the son of one of Napoleons officers, was a professor of mathematics in a prominent institution, and had received a military education. Before Tesla was born, his father joined the clergy and received accolades as a great speaker. Tesla claims his father was a natural philosopher, poet, and writer. His sermons were said to be as eloquent as those of Abraham a-Sancta-Clara. Teslas father spoke many languages and for someone so stern and orthodox, he also had a humorous and loving side.

After he learned to read, Tesla would immerse himself in his fathers library and read everything he could. He quickly found that he could also memorize the books he read. However, his continual reading was frowned on by his father. Milutin believed that reading too early in life would ruin ones eyes. Undiscouraged by his fathers opinion, Tesla learned to cover the keyholes and cracks in the door in order to read until midnight.

Teslas mother, Djuka, had no formal education, but she was brilliant, hardworking and despite being illiterate, could memorize long, complicated poems. Djuka Tesla invented appliances to help with her chores around the house and farm. One of her inventions was a mechanical eggbeater. Tesla always claimed that his inventive instincts and photographic memory came from his mother.

[She was] an inventor of the first order and would, I believe, have achieved great things had she not been so remote from modern life and its multifold opportunities. She invented and constructed all kinds of tools and devices and wove the finest designs from thread that was spun by her. She even planted the seeds, raised the plants, and separated the fibers herself. She worked indefatigably, from break of day till late at night, and most of the wearing apparel and furnishings of the home was the product of her hands, (Winston, 2013).

When Tesla was only five, his brother Dane was killed in an equestrian accident while riding a beloved family Arabian horse. The horse, Nikola claimed, Had almost human intelligence. The horse had saved his father from a winter blizzard but was responsible for Nikolas brothers death. Tesla witnessed the tragic scene and the loss unsettled young Nikola. He became deeply afraid of ghosts, ogres and other monsters of the dark. He experienced terrifying nightmares and learned to stay awake for hours during the night. He remembered the day his brother died in vivid detail for the rest of his life.

After his brothers death, Nikola Tesla felt he had to work very hard to make his parents proud of him. The recollection of his attainments made every effort of mine seem dull in comparison. Anything I did that was creditable merely caused my parents to feel their loss more keenly. So I gave up with little confidence in myself, (Tesla, N. 2011).