Back in the 1800’s Thomas Edison had a vision to power the whole of New York using DC (direct current) that he developed, this idea was brilliant, but had one set back. A power station was needed every mile due to D.C. only flowing in one direction. This wasn’t a very practical form of electricity or cost effective, another idea or form of electricity was needed. Welcome Nikolas Tesla, he came up with the idea of AC (Alternating Current) with this form of electricity the flow of electric charge changes direction periodically in relation to a sine wave. With this new type of electricity it could be sent much further due to…
The story about Nikola Tesla is the story of a genius who was largely disrespected and abused by other scientists and inventors. Through my research I have managed to find out about the forgotten genius, his creation, the competition against direct current, and his true predictions. Furthermore, I talk about why this unfortunate futurist did not receive the prestige for his work; yet, considered the best scientist of all times.…
Thomas Edison is one of Americas most famous people inventors. He is responsible for the invention of tons of devices known around the world.…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What 's a sundial in the shade?” 1 Throughout history there have been many amazing inventors who used their talents to innovate beyond their time period. People like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Alexander Graham Bell were examples of such talented innovators with inventions that are in one way or another still used in today’s day to day life. To beat them all, Benjamin Franklin is famous not for one but multiple inventions that are still in use today. Franklin reinvented the postal service, optometry, invented the Franklin Stove, and made important discoveries with electricity, all of which proves why Benjamin Franklin is one of the world’s greatest and most influential inventors.…
Benjamin Franklin made a huge impact in history. Many things he discovered are still used today. Without him, the world wouldn't be what it was today. As an important inventor, scientist, and leader, he was a very important person in this society. It can take just one human being to change the whole…
When Tesla came to America in 1884 from Paris, the United States was powering homes and businesses with direct current electricity. DC power was severely limited and could only run a mile before another power station had to be built to reenergize the lines that ran overhead. To combat the inefficiency of Thomas Edison’s DC power, Tesla eventually created alternating current.…
Henry Ford, the inventor of the automobile, was not only an innovator in his own industry, but he also changed the way products were, and are made. Henry Ford changed the way products are made because he used the assembly…
The reason these inventors were so significant was because without them there would not be a smooth process in the U. S today. Edwin Drake actually created the very first oil well, if you think about it who knows how long it would have taken to have found that and what we would do if it wasn’t found. Thomas Edison created the photograph, the light bulb and the motion picture. If we think about that also, who knows how our household would be without the light bulb and how our memories would be captured without a photograph. Even Alexander Bell who created the telephone, how would we communicate? The point that I’m making is that a lot of things would not be the way they are if it wasn’t for a lot of these significant people. Our world would be upside down if we didn’t have all these new and old inventions within our world. An also the incentives for the inventors and the U.S was that people were going to buy these things and money would come back to…
First of all, Thomas Edison invented things that we use everyday. According to [biographyonline] Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. Another example he invented the electric car in 1912. According to edison muckers.org he made his first patented invention the Electrical vote recorder in 1868. He invented many other things but those are some of his many inventions.…
One of the reasons he is most well-known was for discovering electricity. As most people know, he went out one day with a kite and a key tied to the kite in stormy weather. The weather was not actually a lightning storm; it was just a gloomy, cloudy, and windy day. He proved that lightning was a form of electricity and that it could travel through different materials. This one small discovery led to our ability to make our own electricity which we use constantly every day of our lives. Another contribution he made, which not as many people know, is that he signed four of the major documents in U.S. history. The documents are: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution of the U.S.A. If he had not been there to participate in the writing of these documents, the course of history of the United States may have been quite different. Who knows, we may not have even been the United States at all.…
Tesla invented everything we associate with radio; antennas, tuners and related. (Wilson, Tracy V. How Stuff Works) Tesla built on these discoveries and inventions to create the first wireless remote control boat, fluorescent and neon lights which he actually bend into letters, wireless bulbs that were lit by energy from the earth, and an AC power plant that harnessed the hydroelectric power of Niagara Falls. He even had a hand in the creation of robotics. His system of delivering power to homes and businesses using AC overpowered the DC power promoted by his former employer Thomas Edison. Till this day we still receive AC power in our homes. By the time Tesla died in 1943 his inventions and discoveries had made much of our current technology…
Due to Thomas’ inventions today we have the electric power stations this is used to supply electricity to a wide range of people across a county. His inventions with the use of electricity is what has kept our world moving till date the electric light bulb for example, this is used all over the world today as the use of electricity is becoming more, and more demanding in this world era.…
* He has discovered electricity. He discovered that lightning is attracted to metal. So now he has to keep it a secret. I think he has discovered the most valuable invention in my opinion. He has discovered what peaked us once electricity was invented we started to grow majorly. So I think that electricity was the most important invention.…
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian born American citizen who changed the face of electrical current as we know it. He was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist. Tesla was a person well ahead of his time and he paid dearly for it. Tesla’s achievements and his ability as a showman demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions made him world famous but later became the archetypal “mad scientist”. Tesla’s later works were surrounded in controversy and brought him to his knees as a recluse living in a room of the New Yorker Hotel. Tesla died in 1943 penniless and in debt leaving a legacy that will never be forgotten.…
Thomas Edison did not invent the electric light bulb, but he made the first commercial one by testing different metal filaments, until he discovered a carbon-based, high-resistance, filament. Throughout his career, he made many valuable improvements to his invention. By making light bulbs cheap, safe, and convenient to the public, Edison changed the way we utilized light forever. Everyday we use light bulbs without realizing it, in our houses, in cities, in cars. It would be hard to imagine life without Edison’s light bulb.…