Is there a genius in the world? There is no doubt that it exists. We always like to quote Edison's famous saying: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat", but we miss the second half: "1% inspiration is the most important." Today, we will introduce a god-like man. He is proficient in eight languages, has obtained 7 patents in his life, and rejected Nobel physicists 11 times. He once said, "I can split the earth in half if I want." He is the inventor, physicist, electrical engineer and futurist Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla was born into a Serbian family in Croatia in p>1856. In 1875, he studied electrical engineering at Graz Polytechnic University in Austria. After only one semester, he dropped out. After dropping out, he cut off contact with his family and went to travel alone.
in p>1884, Tesla came to new york, USA, and worked in Edison's company as an ordinary engineer to repair DC generators. Although Edison was a great inventor, he was also a very mean, stingy and jealous capitalist and businessman. Tesla didn't get the reward and respect he deserved, so he started his own business.
In the first two years after leaving Edison Company, Tesla's life was very difficult, and then gold was bound to shine. In 1888, Tesla obtained two patents on alternator, invented alternator and started a "current war" with Edison. At that time, Edison's direct current dominated the American power industry. Direct current has a fatal defect: when electric energy is transmitted through cables, it will be consumed, so the cost of long-distance transmission of direct current is quite high, while the efficiency of alternating current is higher. In order to suppress Tesla, Edison tried his best to sabotage and vilify alternating current, which was very dangerous, and even sent someone to burn Tesla's laboratory, but Tesla still won the final victory of the "current war".
Tesla is a peerless genius. He has been selected as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 11 times, including twice with Edison, but Tesla refused all of them and quipped: "How can you enjoy a wife with others?" Especially how can you enjoy it with a liar? " He didn't accept the Nobel Prize once, but he was respected by many Nobel Prize winners in physics, because as long as scientists studied his works, the proportion of being inspired to win the Nobel Prize in physics reached 27%!
Tesla had 7 kinds of patents in his life, and he could have become the richest man in the world. But unlike Edison, he didn't take money seriously. Originally, he could get a patent fee of $2.53 for every horsepower of alternating current, and he could become the richest man in the world within a year. But Tesla tore up the patent of alternating current and let human beings use it for free. As for the patent fees of other inventions he earned, only the basic expenses were left, and all the rest were donated.
In p>1943, Nikolai Tesla, who never married, died in a hotel at the age of 86. He was called "the man who created the 2th century", and his contribution was greater than Edison's!