Eddy current

type of electrical current. Starting in the 1870’s the fight over electric currents,…

Honor is to regard with great or respect or to have high esteem for someone or something. My personal definition of honor is to be a productive member in society and to help out others around you. Thomas Edison In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the first phonograph. A phonograph is a sound reproducing that uses cylinders to record sound as well as reproduce sound. In 1879 Thomas Edison built the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb. Edison also introduced the world's first viable…

Responsible for the radio, x-ray machine, and many other innovations, Nikola Tesla receives almost no credit for his master mind. Even though he was not recognized for his works, he still kept pursuing his dream primarily to create a better world for man-kind to inhabit. Nikola Tesla, known only as a footnote in the history of engineering, has shaped our modern day interactions by his dedication to doing the “impossible.” How a man is raised will not only impact him, but those who are prominent…

All of these men were American scientist and businessman who helped Tesla advance his research or career. Thomas Edison allowed Tesla to showcase his talent even though he eventually gave him nothing for his work. “Tesla promptly quit and took a job digging ditches. But it wasn’t long before word got out the Tesla’s AC motor was worth investing in, and teh Western Union Company put Tesla to work in a lab..” (King, pg. 2). Tesla’s time with Thomas allowed him to get exposure and move on to…

permanent magnetic field. The induced field created in the copper coil opposes the permanent one (according to Lenz's Law). These two opposing magnetic fields create the force that resists the rotation of the coils. When the light bulb is taken out no current can flow through the coil (Faraday's Law) so no opposing magnetic field is created. Hot Plate Why didn’t the power you calculated match the power stated on the hot plate?…

parents would find out so he disappeared to distant family members. His father found out and offered him to start fresh at a new university because he never graduated the last semester. Tesla had a interest in Alternating Current (AC) but also had an idea about how Direct Current (DC) worked but thought that…

These two field magnets always have opposite polarity. On the middle of the motor there is an armature, two commutators and two brushes. When current flow though the two brushes, one of the brushes touches commutator plate 1 and the other brushes touches commutator plate 2. Then the armature A and armature B turn in to field magnets, because when the current flow though iron that coil with wire, it will produce a strong electromagnetic field. This means that armature A and armature B must have…

Nikola Tesla was, in my opinion, a great inventor that could have changed the entire world. Tesla was born in a small village called Smiljan in Austria. After his genious 12-year old brother passed away, Nikola, who was 5 years old, was pressured into studying. He studied chemistry, engineering and philosophy. He later emigrated to the United States of America in 1884, where he was offered a job at the company of Thomas Edison. He quit his job a few months later after a disagreement over his…

sold many patent rights, including those to his alternating-current machinery, to George Westinghouse. His invention the tesla coil that he built in 1891 is still used in radio technology to this day. Tesla eventually died in New York City on January 7, 1943. Tesla didn't get as many patents as Edison did, he only obtained around 300 patents and sold his Alternating Current…

Fry's Electronics, a number of bright bolts just flying rampant. Nikola Tesla has delivered a number of contributions that is still used today. The majority of electric power today has been derived from Nikola. He changed the efficiency of electric current, discovered transmitting and receiving radio signals, created first RC boat, and his most popular invention the Tesla coil. Arriving in the US in 1884 at age 28, Nikola had always has the passion to advance the electrical engineering. His most…