Nikola Tesla (born July 10, 1856, Smiljan, Croatia–died Jan. 7, 1943, New York City), invented many things that to this day he does not get credit for. Just sitting at your computer you owe Nikola Tesla a great deal. His Tesla Coil supplies the high voltage for the picture tube you use. The electricity for your computer comes from a Tesla-designed AC generator, is sent through a Tesla transformer, and gets to your house through 3-phase Tesla power. He holds over forty U.S. patents (circa 1888) covering our entire system of Polyphase Alternating Current (AC). These patents are so novel that nobody could ever challenge them in the courts. Tesla’s four-tuned circuits (two on the receiving side and two on the transmitting side, secured by U.S. patents #645,576 and #649,621) were the basis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision (Case #369 decided June 21, 1943) to overturn Marconi’s basic patent on the invention of radio. Unfortunately, the decision came 5 months 2 weeks too late. Nikola Tesla died penniless in a New York City hotel room on January 7, 1943.
He invented among other things the loudspeaker, the polyphase induction motor, the hydroelectric generator, the radio, rotating magnetic field principle, the telephone repeater, X-Rays, vacuum tubes, as well as florescent lights, also microwaves, and radar, AC power (both 2-phase and 3-phase), broadcast power, the rotary engine, and lets not forget the Tesla Coil. Tesla also experimented with wireless communication, radio wave propagation, missile science, robots, remote control, satellites, beam weapons, and nuclear fusion. So just about every time you use a gadget of technological wizardry .. you have Nikola Tesla to thank for it.
If Thomas Edison was a “Man of His Time” then Nikola Tesla was about 200 years before his.
July 10, 1997 was Nikola Tesla Day in New York as well as New Jersey
I personally think it should be noted as a national holiday like President’s Day
