Nikola+Tesla

=__Nikola Tesla: Inventor, Engineer and Scientist__ =

By: Kayla Davis and Chloe Grenfell


His Life:

 * Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan Lika, Croatia in 1856. His Father was a priest and his Mother was a smart but uneducated woman.
 * From an early age Tesla showed creativity, imagination, and a lot of potential. He was always very intrigued by the science of electricity.
 *  Nikola Tesla learned five languages.
 * He was training to become an engineer at the University at Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. He began his career and and electrical engineer in Budapest.
 * He joined the Continental Edison Company and then traveled to America. When Tesla arrived in New York from Serbia, he had 4 cents to his name.
 * When he went to America he worked for Thomas Edison but because of conflicting ideas he went to work for the Westinghouse Electric Company.
 * In his lifetime, he received over 800 different patents. He died January 7th 1943 at the age of 86.

His Inventions:

 * He is known as the "Genius Who Lit Up the World." He was a true visionary for his time and was far ahead in his scientific endeavors. In 1883 he built a prototype of an induction motor and ran it successfully. However no one in Europe was interested in his invention so he agreed to go to New York and work for Thomas Edison.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Tesla worked for Edison for another 59 years. Edison and Telsa disagreed on many of their inventions. Since they disagreed he invented things he thought were more efficient on his own.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">He created the A.C induction motor. Why not build generators that would send electrical energy along distribution lines first one way, than another, in multiple waves using the poly phase principle Tesla thought.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Which is used everywhere for household appliances, and because of his inventions, electricity is more efficient and is transmitted better all over the globe.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He also created the modern day radio that can be used for communication, without his invention we might not have the same sort of telephones today. He changed the world with his inventions.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kayla Davis
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">PBS. "PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning." //PBS: Public Broadcasting Service//. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/tesla/>. This website had a lot of useful and reliable information about Nikola Tesla. It included information about his life and his many different accomplishments. It is has a biography that is divided into sections like his early life, life in America etc. I also got two of my pictures from this source and my information on his inventions and discoveries

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Tesla's Biography." //Tesla Memorial Society of New York//. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. <http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm>. This website is a good bibliography for Nikola Tesla. It talked about his life and childhood.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Chloe Grenfell**
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some Interesting Facts about Nikola Tesla." //Nikola Tesla - Did You Know?// Web. 20 Oct. 2011. <http://home.earthlink.net/~drestinblack/didyouknow.htm>. This website has information describing the different inventions, and problems Tesla had through out his career. It tells about his life, inventions, and accomplishments. I got one of my pictures from this source.

"Tesla's Biography." //Tesla Memorial Society of New York//. 1998. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. <http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm>. This website shows a biogragphy about Nikola Tesla. Also about the rivalry between Edison and Tesla.

"Nikola Tesla: Inventor, Engineer, Scientist." //Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience//. Bogdan R. Kosanovic, 2000. Web. 20 Oct. 2011. <http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla/>. A telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights are just a few inventions of Teslas mentioned in the website.