Nikola Tesla

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his brother exhibited similar difficulties. To gain relief, Nikola would take control of his hallucinations by conjuring up his own images—creating his own imaginary world. He would take imaginary journeys to strange places. These experiences were intense and made as strong an impression on young Nikola as his real life experiences. He played this game constantly from early childhood until the age of 17 when he began channeling his thoughts toward invention [2 p. 11-12].
As an inventor, he was able to eliminate a lot of models, drawings, and experiments by using the imagination he had developed in childhood to work through the development and trials of a new idea. He would conduct his first experiments in his imaginary world, noting problems and making adjustments, thus completing much of the preliminary work before conducting physical experiments [2 p. 12].
The first commercially generated power was direct current. Although alternating current could be more ...

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said if he did, there would be $50,000 in it for him. Tesla worked long hours for almost a year to complete the redesign. He visited Edison and asked about his $50,000. Edison replied, “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor.” Tesla resigned [2 p. 33-34]. America was entering an economic depression and Nikola Tesla found himself working on a New York street gang from 1886 to 1887 [2 p. 36].

THE ALTERNATING CURRENT SYSTEM

Finally, Tesla’s foreman took him to meet A. K. Brown, manager of Western Union Telegraph Co. With Brown’s help, Tesla Electric Co. was formed in April 1887. Tesla patented singlephase, two-phase, and three-phase AC systems, and two AC motors. In the ...

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