The most amazing inventions of Nikola Tesla - the great scientist and experimenter

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Exactly 163 years ago, Nikola Tesla was born on this day. There is hardly a person on this planet who has not heard of him. Companies are named after Nikola Tesla, his inventions were considered great, they are trying to unravel his secrets even today. Many see him as a terrible visionary who created a secret weapon and conquered unknown forces of nature. Who was Tesla really? What was his secret? You will like the answer very much.

Inventions: what is Nikola Tesla known for?

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in the small village of Smilyan, in Serbia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Milutin Tesla, was an Orthodox priest. Mother, Dahlia Tesla, also came from the family of a clergyman.

In life, Tesla was very unlucky. After studying electrical engineering in his early youth, he became addicted to gambling and went into large debt. The money had to be given to the mother - since then Tesla has not played. He was constantly not satisfied with the educational institutions in which he began to work as a teacher. He wanted to put his knowledge into practice, so he tried to innovate in all the companies he got into. Alas, his work was never judged on merit. After working for several years in Paris, in the Continental Company of Edison, Tesla did not receive an award for his work. But the desire to work with electricity did not leave Nicholas with any options except to work for Thomas Edison, the very first inventor of the ordinary incandescent lamp.

In 1885, Edison offered Tesla to improve electric DC machines and promised to pay $ 50,000. In response, the ingenious inventor developed 24 options for technical improvements. Edison turned it down, saying he was joking. Tesla, as expected, quit.

Important inventions of Tesla: a list

• the first electromechanical generators of high-frequency currents and a high-frequency transformer;
• modern rules of electrical safety (Tesla carried out experiments with electricity on himself);
• his experiments with high-frequency currents formed the basis for the development of electrotherapy and medical research;
• described the phenomenon of a rotating magnetic field;
• received patents for multiphase electrical machines that formed the basis of hydroelectric power plants around the world;
• created the first wave radio transmitter;
• carefully studied the principles of radio communication;
• "Tesla Coils" - lightning generators;
• developed the basics of "wireless charging";
• developed the principles of radio detection of submarines;
• tried to create a superweapon capable of destroying an entire army.

Nikola Tesla's mysterious experiments

The very experiment, for which Tesla began to be called "the ruler of the world", was carried out in 1899 in Colorado Springs. The scientist succeeded in causing gigantic electrical discharges - literally, the peals of lightning. The thunder from them was heard 24 kilometers from the laboratory. After that, Nikola announced that he had contacted extraterrestrial civilizations. You can imagine the fear and reaction of the public.

But that was not enough.

By the end of 1899, the scientist moved to New York and built a laboratory on Long Island. He wanted to release a colossal amount of energy, for which he resonantly tried to "shake" the ionosphere. On the day of the launch of the experimental setup, journalists wrote that the sky was shining thousands of kilometers above the laboratory.

What was Tesla's secret?

Tesla's real secret was in himself, in his bizarre nature and habits. He could actually seem very strange, how strange an electrical engineer can be, summoning thunderclaps and trying to communicate with aliens.

For example, Tesla was gripped by an incomprehensible delight when he looked at pearls or pearl earrings. As if the pearlescent tints awakened something extraterrestrial in himself. But the smell of camphor caused him almost tangible pain.

At the same time, Nikola could mentally imagine the internal structure of any device, just by looking at it. As if he saw through all his screws and tongues. Had X-ray vision, like some superhero. They also say that in childhood Tesla fell ill with cholera, but somehow "magically" recovered after a few days.

While still at school, he showed "superpowers": he instantly solved problems in physics and mathematics and won all the Olympiads. Moreover, he won all sports events. And in childhood Tesla often dreamed of bizarre creatures - trolls, ghosts, giants, which caused the future inventor to have tantrums and seizures.

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Tesla could not work in a team at all. But he played billiards professionally.

Tesla slept four hours a day. Of these, two hours were spent thinking or dozing. He ate exclusively alone, because if the genius did not calculate the volume of plates, cups and pieces of food, the food did not bring him pleasure.

In 1921 Nikola Tesla offered technical assistance to the Soviet government. I wonder what knowledge he could convey? What interesting inventions would you suggest? Tesla's combination of amazing skills and inventions conjure up amazing lightning towers and instant long-distance communication.

The figure of the genius inventor is surrounded by many conjectures and nonexistent qualities attributed to him. In combination, an unsuccessful life with all "superpowers" and Tesla's genius gave us a bitter story of a personality that found its glory long after death.