How Did Nikola Tesla Affect America

ACA Kaleb Terrell
History Exam 12/6/14
Nikola Tesla’s was effect on America Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor who was born on July 10, 1856, and died on January 7, 1943, at the age of 86 and Nikola Tesla’s birthplace was Smiljan, Austrian Empire modern-day Croatia. He four other siblings one older brother and three sisters and he attended Krajina a primary school in Smiljan, there he learned German, arithmetic, and religion in 1861. In 1873, Tesla contracted Cholera and was sick in bed for nine months and was in a many near death situation during this time. Tesla applied to Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria, on a Military Frontier Scholarship, in 1875. Tesla earned the highest grades possible and passed
After Tesla dropped out of the Polytechnic Institute he moved to Maribor, Slovenia and worked as a draftsman. In 1882, Tesla worked in France for the Continental Edison Company for two years, and later moved to New York in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in Edison Machine Works, but quit because Edison didn’t pay Tesla the money he promised him after Tesla improved the Edison Company’s motor and generators.
After Tesla left Edison Machine Works and began his own business called Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing in 1886, but the investors didn’t care for Tesla’s ideas and eventually forced him out of business and left him penniless. Later in 1887, Tesla, Alfred S. Brown, and Charles F. Peck created a new company called Tesla Electric Company. On the 89 Liberty Street in Manhattan they had set up a laboratory for Tesla were he could make and design new devices for the company. One of his inventions that made his laboratory was a induction motor that ran on a alternating current and used polyphase current to make a rotating magnetic field to turn the motor. In 1888, Brown
The experiments that Tesla did at Colorado prepared him for Wardenclyffe, which is a trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility near Shoreham, Long Island. Tesla began to plan the Wardenclyffe Tower facility with a budget of 150,000 dollars, in 1900. Later, Tesla asked for more money so he could build a more powerful transmitter and when he was asked where was all the money Tesla told Morgan (the person he got the money from) that he was affected by the Panic of 1901 which Morgan had caused. Morgan was apart of the stock market crash and from the original agreement Morgan still owed Tesla some money. In 1901, Marconi paas the letter S from England to the Newfoundland which ended the relationship between Tesla and Morgan. Tesla kept pleading for additional money for the next five years to complete Wardenclyffe after that for the next nine months he continued the project and completed it at the height of 187 feet. In 1902, Tesla moved his lab from Houston Street to Wardenclyffe. Back at the Houston Street lab Tesla invented a steam-powered mechanical oscillator and when testing it made a resonance of several buildings. Tesla realized the danger of the