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Matter and Energy II
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Activity 8
Sebastian Ruiz Chong
24/10/2022
Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American engineer and inventor who was born in Smiljan, Croatia on July 10, 1856, and died in New York City on January 7, 1943, is credited with discovering and patenting the rotating magnetic field, which is the foundation of the majority of alternating-current technology. Additionally, he created the three-phase electric power transmission system. He sold George Westinghouse the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors before emigrating to the United States in 1884. He created the Tesla coil, an induction coil utilized extensively in radio technology, in 1891.
Tesla came from a Serbian-American family. His mother was clever but unschooled, while his father was an Orthodox priest. As he became older, he showed amazing imagination, originality, and a poetic touch.
He studied at the University of Prague and the Technical University of Graz, Austria, in preparation for a future as an engineer. He first encountered the Gramme dynamo, a generator that could also function as an electric motor, in Graz. As a result, he came up with a clever approach to make use of alternating current. Later, in Budapest, he made ideas for an induction motor that would serve as his first step toward the successful application of alternating current after seeing the concept of the revolving magnetic field. Tesla started working for the Continental Edison Company in Paris in 1882, and in 1883, while on assignment in Strassburg, he built his first induction motor after hours.
Tesla's polyphase system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors was patented in May 1888. Tesla sold the patent rights to George Westinghouse, the president of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh. The deal sparked an epic battle of wills between Edison's direct-current systems and the Tesla-Westinghouse alternating-current strategy, which ultimately prevailed.
Tesla quickly built up his own lab where he could unleash his creative side. He experimented with shadowgraphs that Wilhelm Röntgen would later employ when he discovered X-rays in 1895.
In 1893, Westinghouse lit the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago using Tesla's alternating current system. Their ability to build the first power equipment at Niagara Falls, which had Tesla's name and patent numbers, was made possible in part by their success.
Tesla passed away by himself in Room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker on January 7, 1943, at the age of 86. Alice Monaghan, Tesla's maid, entered his room despite Tesla posting a "do not disturb" notice on his door two days prior and discovered his body there. After examining the body, assistant medical examiner H.W. Wembley determined that coronary thrombosis was the cause of death.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikola-Tesla