BIOGRAPHY:

Nikola Tesla was an engineer, physicist, the greatest inventor and scientist of the twentieth century. His discoveries changed the world forever, and his life and biography are filled with amazing events. Tesla gained worldwide fame as the creator of the electric motor, generator, multiphase systems and devices operating on alternating current, which became the main milestones of the second stage of the industrial revolution and the amazing facts of his biography.

Nikola Tesla is also known as one of those who believed in the existence of free energy in the ether. Conducted a large number of experiments and experiments confirming its presence and the possibility of using ethereal technologies. He is called a psychic who predicted the modern world, others call him a charlatan and a schizophrenic, and still others call him a great inventor and scientist.

Childhood:

The father of the famous scientist Milutin Tesla was a clergyman, his mother Georgina Tesla raised children and helped her husband in the church. Nikola had three sisters and a brother who died in childhood after falling from a horse. The family lived 6 km from the town of Gospić in the Serbian village of Smiljany. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856.

Today the scientist’s homeland is in Croatia, at that time it was the territory of Austria-Hungary. The boy finishes his first grade at school in the village. Despite the cramped conditions and lack of teachers, he really liked it there.

Therefore, the news of his move to Gospic upset him. The reason for this change was the promotion of his father in rank. Nikola finishes junior school in Gospić.

After graduation, he attends a three-year gymnasium. From childhood he learns to be independent. The parents work a lot, are rarely at home, and relatives look after the boy. Helps run the household, later gets a job at a factory to earn pocket money. In the fall of 1870 he went to Karlovac and entered the Higher Real School.

Disease:

In 1873, Nikola Tesla received his matriculation certificate and reflected on his destiny. The parents wanted their son to continue their work and become a priest. The young man had other interests not related to the church. Finding himself at a crossroads, he reflects sadly on the future. Not wanting to disobey her parents, Nikola decides to study spiritual sciences.

Fate decreed otherwise. A cholera epidemic broke out in Gospic, killing a tenth of the townspeople. Tesla’s entire family was sick, so Nikola was strictly forbidden to return home. He goes to his parents and soon falls ill. Nine months of illness, complicated by other diseases, became a difficult ordeal for him.

The situation was hopeless, the doctors could not help. On one of the difficult days of the crisis, I had a conversation with my father. The father, trying to cheer up the young man, said that everything would be fine and he would get better. Nikola replied that he would get through it if his father allowed him to devote his life to engineering. The father promised his dying son that he would study at the most prestigious university in Europe.

Perhaps this was the reason for Nikola’s recovery. He himself remembers with gratitude the healer who found herself in the priest’s house when no one hoped for anything. An elderly woman gave the patient a decoction of beans, which turned out to be a miraculous drug that put the young man on his feet. After recovery, Nikola hid in the mountains for three years from serving in the army, as he had not yet fully recovered from his illness.

After a painful illness, Tesla developed a manic fear of the possibility of contracting the infection again. He washed his hands often. Noticing a fly crawling on the table, he demanded that the dishes be replaced. The second strange thing that he acquired after his illness was strong flashes of light that appeared to him, hiding real objects and replacing thoughts.

Subsequently, this feature manifested itself in the fact that, along with flashes, visions of his future inventions arose. The unusual gift was expressed in the fact that the scientist imagined a device or device, mentally tested it and implemented it in reality, receiving a product ready for use. His abilities would be the envy of a modern computer.

Studies:

In 1875, Nikola Tesla became a student at the Higher Technical School in Graz (now Graz Technical University), studying electrical engineering. In his first year, observing Gram’s machine, he concludes that its full operation is hampered by the direct current of the motor. The teacher sharply criticized him, saying that the machine would not work at all on alternating current.

In my third year I became addicted to gambling and lost a lot of money. Recalling this period of his life, he writes that card games were not entertainment for him, but a desire to escape from failures.

He distributed the winnings to the losers – for this he was called an eccentric. His passion for gambling ended in a big loss, after which the mother had to borrow money from a friend to pay off a gambling debt.

The student who solves the most complex problems in his head, oddly enough, did not pass the final exams, and therefore did not graduate from college. In 1879, his father dies. To help the family, Nikola gets a job as a gymnasium teacher in Gospić. The following year, financed by his uncles, he becomes a student at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Prague. After the first semester he quits his studies and goes to Hungary.

Work in Europe:

In 1881 he moved to Budapest and worked in the engineering department of the Central Telegraph as a designer and draftsman. Here he has access to the study of progressive inventions, the opportunity to experiment and implement his own ideas. The main task of this period was the invention of the alternating current electric motor.

In less than two months of intensive work, he creates all single-phase and multiphase motors, all system modifications associated with his name. The innovation of Tesla’s works was that thanks to them it became possible to transmit energy over long distances, powering lighting devices, factory machines and household devices.

In 1882 he moved to Paris and got a job at the Continental Edison Company. The company was working on the construction of a power plant for the railway station in Strasbourg. Tesla was sent there to resolve operational issues. In his free time, the scientist works on an asynchronous electric motor, and in 1883 demonstrates its work at the Strasbourg City Hall.

Work in America:

In 1884 he returned to Paris, where he was refused payment of the promised bonus. Insulted, Tesla quits his job and decides to go to America. Arrives in New York on July 6. Gets a job at Edison Machine Works as a repair engineer for electric motors and DC generators.

Tesla hopes to devote himself to his favorite work – creating new machines, but the inventor’s creative ideas irritate Edison. An argument took place between them. If the opponent lost, the emigrant was supposed to receive almost a million American dollars. Tesla won the argument by presenting 24 variations of Edison’s invention. Citing that the dispute was a joke, Thomas Edison did not give any money.

The inventor quits and becomes unemployed. In order to somehow survive, he digs ditches and accepts donations. During this period, he met the engineer Brown, through whose light hand interested people learned about the scientist’s ideas. A laboratory is rented for Nikola on Fifth Avenue, which later becomes the Tesla Arc Light Company, which produces arc lamps for street lighting.

In the summer of 1888, Tesla began cooperation with the American George Westinghouse. The industrialist buys several patents and a batch of arc lamps from the inventor. Realizing that he has a genius in front of him, he buys out almost all the patents and invites him to work in the laboratory of his own company. Tesla refuses, realizing that this will limit freedom.

In the most fruitful years 1888-1895, the scientist explored high-frequency magnetic fields. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers invites him to give a lecture. The performance in front of electrical engineers was an unprecedented success.

In 1895, on March 13, the laboratory on Fifth Avenue burned to the ground. His latest inventions were also destroyed in the fire. The scientist said that he was ready to restore everything from memory. The Niagara Falls Company provided financial support of $100,000. Tesla was able to start working in the new laboratory in the fall.

Discoveries and inventions:

What did he invent? Nikola Tesla had many inventions, but the most important discoveries for science were:

• An amplifying transformer for excitation of the Earth, acting in the transmission of electrical energy in a similar way to a telescope in astronomical observations.
• Method of preserving and transmitting light;
• Field theory (rotating magnetic field);
• Alternating current;
• AC motor;
• Tesla Coil;
• Radio;
• X-rays;
• Boosting transmitter;
• Nikola Tesla turbine;
• Shadow photography;
• Neon lamps;
• Adams Hydroelectric Transformer Station;
• Teleautomat;
• Asynchronous motor;
• Electrodynamic induction lamp.
• Remote control;
• Electric submarine;
• Robotics;
• Tesla Ozone Generator;
• Cold Fire.
• Wireless communications and unlimited free energy;
• Laser.
• Plasma ball.
• Installation for the production of ball lightning.

The mystery surrounding Tesla’s personality gave rise to myths and legends. Modern researchers doubt his attitude towards the Philadelphia ship experiment, the Tunguska meteorite, the creation of an electric car, death rays and some other unconfirmed sensational discoveries. Tesla believed in the universal mind, the Akashic Records, the energy of the Earth and that it is a living being.

Personal life:

Tesla had an extravagant character and strange habits. Many women fell in love with him, but he did not reciprocate and was not married. He was of the opinion that family life and the birth of children are incompatible with scientific work. Shortly before his death, the scientist admits that giving up his personal life was an unjustified sacrifice.

Tesla did not have his own home after he left his parents’ house. Lived in a laboratory or in hotel rooms. He slept two hours a day, and once spent 84 hours at work without feeling tired. At one time he drank whiskey every day, believing that it would prolong his life. At the same time, he suffered from neuroses and obsessive states.

He was a supporter of Eugenics – human selection and birth control.

Monument to Nikola Tesla:

A monument to the great inventor and scientist for his achievements and discoveries was erected in Silicon Valley in 2013 using voluntary donations from fans.

Funds were raised using the Kickstarter service. At the base of the statue is a capsule that will be opened in 2043. The monument is a free wireless internet hotspot.

Books:

1. Diaries. I can explain a lot:

The unique memories of the great scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla have become public. His discoveries and scientific forecasts have not lost their relevance to this day. Moreover, much of what the scientist spoke about became clear only in the 21st century, and some remain a mystery even now. The fact that the diaries were published for the first time in Russia, a country for which Nikola Tesla treated with great respect, can be seen as a sign of fate. Was it an accident that the fire of 1895 destroyed Tesla’s laboratory? What connected the genius with the Russian scientist Mikhail Filippov, the inventor of the Death Rays? Philadelphia experiment. World wireless power transmission system. How did it all happen and did it really happen? The invaluable diaries of the genius, kept for many years in the FBI archives, not only shed light on his discoveries, but also reveal the secrets of this truly magical personality, who managed to get ahead of his time.

2. Power over the world:

Nikola Tesla – inventor, engineer and scientist – one of the greatest and most mysterious personalities of the 20th century. Tesla’s experiments are credited with a connection with the problem of the Tunguska meteorite and the Philadelphia experiment – the transformation of a large US warship with its entire crew into an invisible object, the creation of special rays affecting the human psyche, etc. There is no doubt that Tesla had direct or indirect attitude to many secrets of the twentieth century. The book presented to your attention contains articles and speeches by N. Tesla, which are devoted to the global problems of humanity, as well as the development of science and technology in terms of ensuring power over the world for a narrow group of “technocrats”. It should be noted that many of Tesla’s works were classified for many years by decision of the US CIA, which gave rise to some researchers talking about the use of N. Tesla’s methods in the globalist policy of the United States.

3. Lost inventions:

The most incredible rumors are spread about him, but the real facts of his life are even more stunning. He was awarded the highest honor available to a scientist – a physical quantity is named after him: the unit of measurement of magnetic induction. His discoveries in the field of electrical engineering predetermined the development of human civilization, and almost the entire energy industry of the 20th century grew on his patents. Moreover, recently information has been leaking out that the lion’s share of Nikola Tesla’s inventions, which could literally turn our world upside down, was hidden in the secret storage facilities of the American intelligence services, which took possession of the scientist’s personal archive after his death. Is there at least some truth to these accusations? Are there serious reasons to suspect the US authorities of hiding information about Tesla’s achievements? What discoveries did he make himself – and which ones were attributed to him by the press, greedy for cheap sensations? And are the persistent rumors about the lost inventions of the Slavic genius true? This book puts a definitive end to this issue. Presented here are not only detailed analytical descriptions of Nikola Tesla’s patents, but also the personal confessions of the scientist himself, who entitled his priceless memoirs: “My Inventions.”

4. 3.8 Revelations of Nikola Tesla:

Mark Twain called him “the lord of lightning,” and the great Rutherford dubbed him “the inspired prophet of electricity.” His contribution to science is compared with the merits of Newton and Einstein, his inventions changed the world, predetermining the development of human civilization. Many of Nikola Tesla’s discoveries were so ahead of their time that we are only able to appreciate them now, and some are still waiting in the wings, be it his research in areas of wireless transmission of energy and radioactivity, frightening weapons development or deciphering signals from Mars. This book represents a unique opportunity to hear the voice of Tesla himself – the most frank, most striking, provocative and sensational articles of the great scientist are collected here, most of which are translated into Russian for the first time.

5. Where is the world going: for better or for worse?

Nikola Tesla is a famous inventor, engineer, and physicist. Tesla’s experiments are credited with a connection with the problem of the Tunguska meteorite, the “Philadelphia experiment” – the transformation of a large US warship with its entire crew into an invisible object, etc. It is believed that Tesla was directly or indirectly related to many mysteries of the 20th century. In addition to invention, Tesla was keenly interested in the problems of the development of the world as a whole, and wrote a number of works on topical issues of politics and philosophy. Albert Einstein is an outstanding theoretical physicist, laureate of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, and a public figure and humanist. In addition to works on physics, Einstein is the author of about 150 books and articles in the field of history and philosophy. The book presented to your attention contains the best philosophical and political science works of N. Tesla and A. Einstein. They evaluate the main events of world history of the 20th century; the answer is given to the question of where the world is heading and what awaits it in the future.

6. Nikola Tesla. Lectures (collection):

Before you, reader, is the second book, published for the first time in Russian, consisting of six lectures and two speeches by Nikola Tesla, read by him in the most prestigious scientific and educational institutions in America, England, and France. Amazing natural gifts, an unquenchable desire for knowledge, a keen interest in everything the world is so rich in, constant self-improvement made Nikola Tesla a unique personality, whose inventive talent and visionary ideas have yet to be truly appreciated by future generations. Lectures and speeches are read with great interest, as they provide an opportunity to recognize Nikola Tesla as a great scientist, profound philosopher and original linguist.