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Faculty of Engineering => EEE => Topic started by: tanvir28 on March 03, 2015, 11:07:55 PM
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Most of you may have heard about or watched the movie "The Prestige". In the middle of the struggle of two magicians to attain greatness in their life; there was a part in the movie about using the talent of Nikola Tesla in one of the experiments. The experimental result was so brilliant that it has ignited the feelings of magic among audiences. But how much do we know about the true works of Tesla?
Here we will try to understand his life in a nutshell in simple biographic manner.
Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that's widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery).He was born in July of 1856, in what is now Croatia. He came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his alternating-current machinery, to George Westinghouse. His 1891 invention, the "Tesla coil," is still used in radio technology today.
Tesla's interest in electrical invention was spurred by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances in her spare time while her son was growing up. Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, was an Orthodox priest and a writer, and he pushed for his son to join the priesthood. But Nikola's interests lay squarely in the sciences. After studying at the Realschule, Karlstadt (later renamed the Johann-Rudolph-Glauber Realschule Karlstadt); the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria; and the University of Prague during the 1870s, Tesla moved to Budapest, where for a time he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange. It was while in Budapest that the idea for the induction motor first came to Tesla, but after several years of trying to gain interest in his invention, at age 28 Tesla decided to leave Europe for America.
( source: biography.com)