Nikola Tesla and WestinghouseĪfter an unsuccessful attempt to start his own Tesla Electric Light Company and a stint digging ditches for $2 a day, Tesla found backers to support his research into alternating current.
Edison demurred, saying, “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor.” Tesla quit soon after. After months of experimentation, Tesla presented a solution and asked for the money. At one point Edison told Tesla he would pay $50,000 for an improved design for his DC dynamos. He worked there for a year, impressing Edison with his diligence and ingenuity. Tesla arrived in New York in 1884 and was hired as an engineer at Thomas Edison’s Manhattan headquarters. The shock of the loss unsettled the 7-year-old Tesla, who reported seeing visions-the first signs of his lifelong mental illnesses. In 1863 Tesla’s brother Daniel was killed in a riding accident. His father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox church and his mother managed the family’s farm. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Though he was famous and respected, he was never able to translate his copious inventions into long-term financial success-unlike his early employer and chief rival, Thomas Edison. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. Nikola Tesla’s Failures, Death and Legacy.
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