Outworn truth of Nikola Tesla | FOS Media Students' Blog

Have you heard about a person named Nikola Tesla? Definitely most of you might answer ‘No’. If your answer is ‘No’, this article is for you.

Nikola Tesla was born on the 10^th July 1856 in Croatia (Past day-Austrian Empire), in a Serbian family. It was in a lightning midnight, that Nikola was born. Therefore, he was called as the ‘Baby that was born from current’. His father, Milutin Tesla was a priest. Milutin needed his son to become a priest too. But young Tesla saw his mother Djuka Mandic designing equipment and methods to make things easier for her. So, Tesla wanted to learn about technology.

One day, Tesla decided that he needed to learn about electricity because of the small static current that affected him from his pet’s hair. After a short period of work in a railway company, Tesla took a decisive decision in his life; to migrate to America. He came to the United States with a few clothes, a little money to spend and his own letter of introduction. In United States he goes to work with the “Great Scientist”; in Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory. There, Tesla conducts numerous experiments for many years.

Edison only knew about and sold DC (Direct Current) electricity. Therefore it was a very expensive service back then. Requiring a plant for every square mile, need of thick cables for transmission, exhaustion being too high and large expense needed to restore the damage to the electrical system etc., were the reasons Edison used to make huge profits. Edison understood that Tesla was smarter than him. So, the last time Edison handed over a project to Tesla, he was asked to repair his DC generators and motors. He promised to give a huge amount of cash to Tesla for this project.

Tesla finished the work without considering day and night. After handing over this project to Edison, he asked for the money Edison promised. Edison refused to give the money and said to Tesla:“Tesla, you don’t understand our American humour”.

The breakup of the Edison and the Tesla began at this.

Tesla then decided to open a separate lab. J.P. Morgan and George Westinghouse were the only companies that sponsored it. This time, Tesla really started work. He brought AC (alternate current) electricity to the world. He was constructing the world’s first hydro power plant in Niagara Falls when the world did not have any idea of hydro-electricity.

Because one plant was sufficient to distribute electricity to the whole province, thin cables were sufficient for transmission and distribution, product and maintenance fees were very low. AC electricity became famous. Tesla’s AC power was extremely popular at that time, as today. AC electricity becoming more popular, resulted in the death of Thomas Alva’s business.

Edison did not just sit back without doing anything. He gave money to school children and made them kidnap pet dogs and cats in New York. He found an elephant and horses to show that Tesla’s AC energy was dangerous. This “great scientist” publicly dismantled AC electricity and burnt kidnapped animals alive. Tesla, a unique brain holder used a fine strategy to solve the issuee. He wore a dress like a Faraday Cage-shaped outfit and publicly pumped out a very high AC power through his body, showing that his product was safe. After this, Edison’s DC electricity was rejected by all means. Then the friend of the poor, AC electricity, became popular worldwide.

Do you think the great scientist Thomas Alva Edison accepted defeat? He burnt Tesla’s Laboratory and destroyed his notes. But these efforts of Edison also failed because Nicola Tesla had an unusual and extraordinary brain. Edison forgot that he had a baby’s brain in comparison to that of Tesla.

Nikola Tesla was able to speak in eight languages; Serbian, English, Czech, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin. He could write the entire book after reading it only once. He had an ability of creating a highly complex 3D notes with his brain. These were completely designed it in his head,without any notes. The damage caused to such a brain of Tesla’s, by these acts were minimal.

Under Edison’s financial favour we all know that Googly Elmo Marconi invented the Radio. But he actually made use of Tesla’s invention and 17 patents, to send the world’s first radio broadcast.

Tesla responded to this, to the media as:

“Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my Patents”

Tesla was given the honour of finding the radio again with the most recent case ruling but majority of the world still does not know it. The honour of radar discovery was given to Robert Watson in 1935, but in 1917, in the First World War, radar technology was first discovered by Nicola Tesla for the US army. Unfortunately, back then, the Navy’s Research & Development division’s head was Edison. The rest, you can imagine yourself.

Tesla made some incredible discoveries. You will not be using the internet today if not for his inventions. Transistor related work, still at test level of Cryogenic Engineering, was tested by him, a 100 years ago. He was the first ever scientist in the world, who recorded the waves that came from space, the creator of the machine for earthquakes. (In this test, the entire earthquake is felt in the New York City. This technology; “HAARP”, is capable of controlling the climatic conditions of the ionosphere and is considered the most dangerous weapon in the world.) He was the scientist who found the resonant frequency on Earth. It took another 50 years for scientists around the world to confirm this value. Still, scientists cannot say how exactly thunder and lightning occurs, but in the 1890s, Tesla created thunder and lightning.

Remote control, Wireless communication, Neon Light, Fluorescent light (Tube light), AC motor (used in blenders, air conditioners to giant machines in the factories), Floating saucer on an electromagnetic field.. Do you ever wonder who discovered these? Tesla was the father of all of these. Tesla made the Tesla tower on the island of Manhattan.

That single tower was able to use the ionosphere above the atmosphere to provide free wireless AC electricity, worldwide.

At this point, Nikola Tesla must have become a millionaire. But it was not the case. He always offered electricity at low prices for people and introduced renewable energy, including hydro, solar and wind energy. In the past, scientists estimated that oil in the earth would be enough for another 50,000 years. According to that, Edison thought that the future generation can depend on oil. But unusual Tesla saw the years of future, in a different way.

When people got free electricity, how can one earn profits? Therefore, the investors abandoned Nikola Tesla. Tesla made the world benefit, even at the loss of his assets. This man, who was deeply in love with the birds and animals, passed away as an unmarried one, at the age of 86 on 7^th of January 1943. Cause of death was Coronary thrombosis.

Everyone knows much about the fraudulent businessman Edison, but they do not teach about Nikola Tesla, even in a school textbook. But us, our children are indebted to him. So you have to think that whether a theoretical scientist like Albert Einstein is probably the most likely only scientist of the century, or if Nikola Tesla, who built all this by his own hands, before hundreds of years can be considered great too. He is the greatest scientist I have ever heard of.