Nikola Tesla Research Paper
Nikola Teslas Greatest Inventions
Randee Harrison
Com/172
March, 24, 2014
Amy Hankins
Nikola Teslas Greatest Inventions
Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, a village in Croatia. This was also where he had attended middle school. Tesla continued his education at the Polytechnic Institute (a college that offered general education courses) in Graz, Austria. Tesla later completed his education at The University of Prague. Tesla was an extraordinary student who frequently enraged his professors, 09-Sep-2003 http://www.voltaicpower.com) questioning the technological status quo with an insight that surpassed his instructors. He rebelled most stringently …show more content…
He did not feel the need for romantic attachments. Tesla had no known relationships. In Teslas later years he had once told a reporter, "Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work ..."(Seifer 2001) Tesla was more-known to seclude himself to his work. When he did, however, engage in social life, many people spoke positively of Nikola. Tesla had a medical condition where his nerve endings were hyper sensitive, in his later years Tesla could not even stand the touch of human hair. Some, however, claim that this was due to Teslas Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This was most likely another factor behind his lack of interest in …show more content…
If it were not for him the world would probably not have radio, or motor vehicles. Tesla Was only years away from harnessing a free energy source for the world, but major corporations backed out of funding his experiments once they found that there was no money to be made. Nikola Tesla is one of the most important yet horribly underappreciated inventors of all time. Teslas legacy is carried on through books, motion picture films, comic books (unfortunately), television documentaries, and live theatre. "Everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times" – Nikola Tesla
REFERENCES and sources http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/who-invented-the-radio http://www.free-energy.ws/nikola-tesla.html
"Tesla Tower in Shoreham Long Island (1901–1917) meant to be the "World Wireless" Broadcasting system." Tesla Memorial Society of New York. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
See U.S. Blows Up Tesla Radio Tower (1917) (citing page 293 of the September 1917 issue of The Electrical Experimenter): "SUSPECTING German spies were using the big wireless tower erected at Shoreham, L. I., about twenty years ago by Nikola Tesla, the Federal Government ordered the tower destroyed and it was recently demolished with dynamite."
Sarboh, S.. "The patents of Nikola Tesla", World Patent Information, 201012
26-Aug-2009b
Randee Harrison
Com/172
March, 24, 2014
Amy Hankins
Nikola Teslas Greatest Inventions
Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, a village in Croatia. This was also where he had attended middle school. Tesla continued his education at the Polytechnic Institute (a college that offered general education courses) in Graz, Austria. Tesla later completed his education at The University of Prague. Tesla was an extraordinary student who frequently enraged his professors, 09-Sep-2003 http://www.voltaicpower.com) questioning the technological status quo with an insight that surpassed his instructors. He rebelled most stringently …show more content…
He did not feel the need for romantic attachments. Tesla had no known relationships. In Teslas later years he had once told a reporter, "Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work ..."(Seifer 2001) Tesla was more-known to seclude himself to his work. When he did, however, engage in social life, many people spoke positively of Nikola. Tesla had a medical condition where his nerve endings were hyper sensitive, in his later years Tesla could not even stand the touch of human hair. Some, however, claim that this was due to Teslas Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This was most likely another factor behind his lack of interest in …show more content…
If it were not for him the world would probably not have radio, or motor vehicles. Tesla Was only years away from harnessing a free energy source for the world, but major corporations backed out of funding his experiments once they found that there was no money to be made. Nikola Tesla is one of the most important yet horribly underappreciated inventors of all time. Teslas legacy is carried on through books, motion picture films, comic books (unfortunately), television documentaries, and live theatre. "Everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times" – Nikola Tesla
REFERENCES and sources http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/who-invented-the-radio http://www.free-energy.ws/nikola-tesla.html
"Tesla Tower in Shoreham Long Island (1901–1917) meant to be the "World Wireless" Broadcasting system." Tesla Memorial Society of New York. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
See U.S. Blows Up Tesla Radio Tower (1917) (citing page 293 of the September 1917 issue of The Electrical Experimenter): "SUSPECTING German spies were using the big wireless tower erected at Shoreham, L. I., about twenty years ago by Nikola Tesla, the Federal Government ordered the tower destroyed and it was recently demolished with dynamite."
Sarboh, S.. "The patents of Nikola Tesla", World Patent Information, 201012
26-Aug-2009b