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Serbian-American inventor who lived and worked in New York City almost 60 years and died at Hotel New Yorker, in Manhattan, on January 7, 1943. He designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls, and there is a monument raised in his honour nearby. Who is the greatest and the most important scientist in hystory? What’s your opinion? He could have been one of the richest people of his age, something like Bill Gates today. Nikola Tesla crossed the Atlantic in 1884 with only 4 cents in his pocket. He sold the patent rights to his system of alternatin-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse. Only a few years later, due to the contract, he earned quite a lot of money, and, for some reason, he tore the contract, giving all the rights to Westinhouse. Had he not did that, he could have become one of the richest man of his age, something like Bill Gates today. But this was only a start, and only one of his patents. Nikola Tesla – popularity issue. Nikola Tesla tried to stay out of the eyes of the public. Scientists usually strive to cooperate with universities, to give lectures about their inventions and finally to sell them. However, with Tesla, this was not the case. After only a few years, he got used to living alone, in solitude, and he remained living like that. Inventions: Nikola Tesla registered about 700 patents, but he had about 1000 more, that he didn’t want to register, or didn’t want people to know about them. Interestingly, some of his inventions are wrongly contributed to others. For example, Marconi is much widely known and recognized for his invention of the radio, but the fact is that radio was one of many Tesla’s inventions, before Marconi grabbed the credits for himself. Somethnig similar happend with X-rays (Roentgen), later with radar etc. Three periods of Tesla’s life. There are three clearly distinguished periods in Nikola Tesla’s life: his youth, his scientific life, and his monk life. The first and the last period are usually neglected. Here, we will pay enough attention to all periods of his life respectfully. The most important invention. As the most important Tesla’s invention most people point out the AC (alternating current) system for electrical transmission that we use in our homes today. However, this is only one of many important Tesla’s inventions.
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