The Radio and its Inventor
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika which was part of an Austo-Hungarian empire in a region of Croatia. He came from a very intelligent family. His father Milutin Tesla was a Serbian orthodox priest and his mother was also an inventor. His mother made household appliances in her own right. He studied at Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873. He also went to two different colleges named the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. He first wanted to specialize in physics and mathematics but then he became very fascinated with electricity. He began a career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881. There he discovered the solution to the rotating …show more content…
His dream was to harness the power of the Niagara Falls. He came to America with a letter of introduction for Edison from Charles Batchelor. In the letter Batchelor said “I know two great men. One is you and the other this young man.” Tesla spent the next 59 years of his life in New York. Tesla set about improving Edison’s line of dynamos while working with him in his lab in New Jersey. It was there that the feud between Edison and Tesla began. That disagreement turned into a full out war Tesla pointed out the inefficiency of Edison’s electrical powerhouses that were up and down the atlantic current. In February 1882 Tesla discovered a rotating magnetic field which is the fundamental principle in physics and the basis of all devices that use an alternating current. As early as 1892, Nikola Tesla created a design for a radio. On November 8, 1898 he patented the radio controlled robot-boat. He used the boat that is controlled by radio waves in the Electrical Exhibition in 1898 in Madison Square Garden. The boat was constructed with an antenna, which transmitted the radio waves coming from a command post where he was standing. Those radio waves were received by a radio sensitive device which is called a coherer, which sent
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika which was part of an Austo-Hungarian empire in a region of Croatia. He came from a very intelligent family. His father Milutin Tesla was a Serbian orthodox priest and his mother was also an inventor. His mother made household appliances in her own right. He studied at Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873. He also went to two different colleges named the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. He first wanted to specialize in physics and mathematics but then he became very fascinated with electricity. He began a career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881. There he discovered the solution to the rotating …show more content…
His dream was to harness the power of the Niagara Falls. He came to America with a letter of introduction for Edison from Charles Batchelor. In the letter Batchelor said “I know two great men. One is you and the other this young man.” Tesla spent the next 59 years of his life in New York. Tesla set about improving Edison’s line of dynamos while working with him in his lab in New Jersey. It was there that the feud between Edison and Tesla began. That disagreement turned into a full out war Tesla pointed out the inefficiency of Edison’s electrical powerhouses that were up and down the atlantic current. In February 1882 Tesla discovered a rotating magnetic field which is the fundamental principle in physics and the basis of all devices that use an alternating current. As early as 1892, Nikola Tesla created a design for a radio. On November 8, 1898 he patented the radio controlled robot-boat. He used the boat that is controlled by radio waves in the Electrical Exhibition in 1898 in Madison Square Garden. The boat was constructed with an antenna, which transmitted the radio waves coming from a command post where he was standing. Those radio waves were received by a radio sensitive device which is called a coherer, which sent