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    The initial Financial investors disagreed with Tesla on his plan for an alternating current (AC) motor and eventually relieved him of his duties. Without any source of income, Nikola worked in New York as a common laborer from 1886-1887 to feed himself and raise capital for his next project. This was Tesla's worst time of his life. During…

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    is pursuing market penetration strategy and related constrained. Tesla intends to enhance their influence on the current markets with their current products. They also market their electric powertrain components to other automakers (2014).” Tesla is really focusing on working on market penetration and all related to it, so the company wants to penetrate in the market using their current products and offering tis product to other car companies. However, it is important note that the company not…

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    electricity. This lead to Edison founding a company that could help deliver this utility and this company would later become General Electric Corporation. However, Edison wasn’t the only person working on or dealing with electricity. Nikola Tesla was also a part of this current battle as he decided that alternating current was better while Edison stuck with direct current. This lead to a fierce rivalry between both men that even lead to some rumors being spread that dealt with Edison trying to…

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    These are things you probably use everyday. The inventor of the AC motor and radio was Nikola Tesla. One of his inventions, the Tesla Coil, was used in early radio antennas. He was a brilliant man with a powerful imagination. He won the ‘war of currents’ and made lighting. And this is his story. He was born in July of 1856, in the small town of Gospic. He was named after his father, Nikola Tesla. The last name of the Tesla’s is taken from an ax that has a “broad cutting blade at…

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    Nikola Tesla The inventor Nikola Tesla lived from July 10, 1856 to January 7, 1943, he was a well-known engineer who designed the alternating-current (AC) electric system. He was born in what is now Croatia; he came to the United States in 1884 and worked for Thomas Edison for a while before they both went their separate ways. Tesla sold several patent rights to George Westinghouse; one of those was his AC machinery. During Tesla’s career he discovered, designed and developed ideas for a number…

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    Tesla was born on July 10,1846 and died January 7,1943. Tesla died from a disease called Coronary Thrombosis The disease causes clots in the blood vessels in the heart it is classified as a type of ischemic heart disease aka heart attack. Tesla grew up in a family of five children which included himself and his siblings Dane, Angelina, Milka and Marica. Tesla's interest in electrical invention was caused by his mother inventing small household appliances in her spare time while her son was…

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    discredit Tesla, Edison showed that AC was dangerous by using it to make the first electric chair (Nix). Transition: Edison was not the inventor that we remember. II. Thomas Edison was willing to cross lines to get what he wanted. A. The light bulb was already an invention way before Edison. a. According to the article mentioned earlier written by Griswold, states that Edison only perfected the light bulb, Electric lighting was already viable, but Edison and his lab are the ones that made it…

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    Europe at the age of 28 to go to America. Once there, he met up with famous American inventor Thomas Edison, whom he worked under between 1884 and 1885. After his short stint working with Mr. Edison, Mr. Tesla started a corporation called The Tesla Electric Light Company that ran in direct competition with Edison. Nikola Tesla was a strong figure in shaping the early American use and understanding of electricity by giving Americans efficient means of transporting electricity…

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    Direct Current (DC) motors Name: University 1.0 Introduction A Direct Current (DC) motor is one of the broader classification of electric motors which operate from a direct current. Nearly all mechanical devices applied in daily life activities are powered by electric motors. Motors transform electrical energy to mechanical energy, hence they are essential for energy conversions in electrical machines. All types of electrical motors are made up of a stationary field referred to a stator and…

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    generating station 's electrical power distribution system, which provided 110 volts direct current (DC) to 59 customers in lower Manhattan. However Edison became stuck, as in order for his system to work he would need to have power stations scattered every mile to make it economical. Which wouldn’t work, the reason being that to bury the cables would be very expensive and the cables would also lose current over long distances, because of the resistance inside…

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