Nikola tesla was born in 1856. From 65438 to 0882, Tesla moved to France and worked for Edison's company, mainly responsible for the design and improvement of power equipment. Because of his outstanding ability, he was transferred to the company's headquarters in new york in the third year and gradually became a star employee.
At 1885, Tesla tried to redesign the company's DC generator. Tesla is full of confidence, saying that it can greatly improve the power generation efficiency of the generator designed by Edison. At that time, Edison thought he was too arrogant and commented, "Here is 50 thousand dollars waiting for you-as long as you can do it." After several months of work, Tesla really fulfilled his promise, but Edison refused to pay $50,000, explaining that it was just a joke. Tesla doesn't understand American humor. Tesla resigned angrily.
Tesla started his own company after he left Edison. He obtained his first patented technology at 1886. Later, at 1886, Tesla was lucky to find a gold owner, who hoped to gain financial benefits by investing in new inventions and patents. They formally reached a cooperation agreement in April 1887 to set up a laboratory for Tesla. The following year, Tesla invented an induction motor based on AC technology.
The rise of Tesla triggered a "current war"-alternating current represented by Tesla and direct current represented by Edison. The final result of this battle was Edison's defeat. As losers, they were forced to enter the communication field in 1890, while Edison lost control of the company in 1892, and his company was eventually merged into General Electric.
1893, Westinghouse Electric defeated General Electric and won the opportunity to provide electricity for the World Expo held in Chicago that year. This is a milestone in the history of alternating current-through this Expo, Tesla and Westinghouse let the American public know that alternating current is safe, reliable and efficient. This successfully established Tesla's position in the history of power development.
There are many strange rumors around Tesla.
1. Reject the Nobel Prize
Fake. 1915165438+16 October, Reuters announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Edison and Tesla. However, on June 5438+065438+1October 15, it was reported that the Nobel Prize in Physics had been awarded to other scientists. Inconsistent news leads to rumors. One theory is that Edison and/or Tesla rejected the Nobel Prize. Tesla's biographers later added fuel to the analysis and said that the reason why they were unwilling to accept the Nobel Prize was entirely because of their hatred, which led to each other's unwillingness to share the Nobel Prize with each other, preferring not to get it themselves but not to get it from each other. Of course, this statement was refuted by the Nobel Foundation as "absurd".
You can predict the future.
Fake. Tesla's real prediction is the death of his mother, 1890 new york Manhattan train accident and the application of modern technology. In fact, Tesla was obsessed with gambling when he was young, and the result was a big loss. Tesla had many wrong judgments and unrealistic opinions in his life.
3. Made the Tunguska Big Bang.
Fake. It is reported that a huge fireball crossed the sky in the northwest of Lake Baikal that morning, and its brightness was equivalent to that of the sun. A few minutes later, a bright light lit up the whole sky. Later, the shock wave produced by the explosion shattered the window glass within 650 kilometers nearby, and a mushroom cloud appeared. The power of this explosion is equivalent to 20 million tons of TNT explosive, which is more than 1000 times of the explosion energy of Hiroshima atomic bomb more than 30 years later. So far, no one knows the cause of the explosion, and some people blame it on Tesla. They claimed that Tesla began to build Walden Creverta in 1900, and put forward the concept of "particle beam launcher", which eventually led to the Tunguska Big Bang because of the experiment of this new weapon. In fact, at the time of 1908, the plan of the tower had stopped because of financial problems.
Tesla discovered X-rays earlier than Roentgen.
Fake. In fact, Tesla, like everyone who had seen cathode rays at that time, only knew that he was "radioactive energy" and did not disclose his experimental results.
Tesla built the world's first hydroelectric power station.
Fake. The United States built the world's first hydropower station on Niagara Falls, adopting the multiphase transmission technology invented by Tesla, but this was misrepresented as "Tesla built the world's first hydropower station".
6. Published the theory of gravitational dynamics, which is the pioneer of the unified theory of contemporary high-energy physics, but it was suppressed by * * * and failed to be published.
Fake. It was only because Tesla could not accept Einstein's theory of relativity that he put forward the concept of supporting "Etherism" in a letter. Without further elaboration, there was no way to talk about the grand unification theory at that time. Einstein in his later years also wasted time on the unification of electromagnetic force and gravity.
7. The brain was taken out for research.
Fake. Tesla's body was intact and cremated, and the ashes were transported back to Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia on 1957.
8. Tesla's Wodenkrift tower can transmit electricity to the whole world, but Morgan shut it down.
Fake. The former is actually a radio transmission tower, not a power transmission device. Morgan shut it down because Marconi took the lead in completing the radio transmission experiment, and Tesla's research has lost its commercial value.
But judging from these rumors, Tesla seems to be a strange image of combining science and witchcraft among the people. This may have a lot to do with his eccentric living habits and maverick research and development ideas.
In terms of personal life, Tesla is indeed a very eccentric person.
Tesla has unusual sleeping habits. He claimed that he never slept for more than 2 hours and could stay awake for dozens of hours. He stayed at the poker table for 48 hours in a row when he was a student. Later, when I was working in the laboratory, I set a record of not sleeping for 84 hours.
Tesla has never been married in her life. He claimed that his "loyalty" to science was very helpful to his achievements in research and development. He said that his companion is electricity: "electricity has injected the most precious thing into my tired and weak body-life and spiritual vitality."
As an inventor and engineer, Tesla has more than 1,000 patents in his life, including more than 700 personal patents.
He improved the high-frequency AC induction motor, which finally made electricity widely used in the 20th century and led mankind into a brand-new era.
His contribution to electromagnetism led the international system of units to use Tesla as the unit of magnetic flux density from 1960.
Nikola tesla is really fierce, but I believe that rejecting rumors is the real affirmation for him.