Tesla Motors

to the high lightning rod. In his experiment, the kit was in replacement of the rod. Electricity would then go through the insulated rope and safely to where he was on the ground. The technology behind the experiment itself involved many different motors, conductors, a kite, a lightning rod, and a lightning bolt. By collaborating with his friends in Philadelphia, Franklin…

“His job on the train caused Edison to become deaf. One morning, he tried to climb the first step but was not able to keep his balance. A railroad worker grabbed him by the ears and hauled him up. Edison felt something snap inside his head, which started his deafness, and got worse throughout his life,” (Thomas Alva Edison). Edison’s deafness allowed him to focus on his work and not be distracted by outside noises and people. He was able to focus on his own thoughts and not hear the others who…

Thomas Edison Thomas Edison struggled in his early life. Edison lost his hearing at a very young age, due to the scarlet fever. He was not in public school only for 3 months because of his hearing loss. He missed out on a lot of things because he got deadly sick. His later life was much better than his childhood, he became an inventor and a businessman. He was one of the greatest businessman of America. Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan Ohio. child of Nancy Matthews…

those limitations were made public, Edison launched a propaganda campaign to convince the people of the superiority of direct current. This War of the Currents as it was called, brought in the involvement of Nikola Tesla, who happened to be an inventor and rival of Thomas Edison. Tesla had created the alternating current power generator. Alternating current eventually proved to be a better power transmitting system than using direct current. In 1888, Edison started working on inventing a motion…

Today, you can flip a switch to light a room, watch a video by pressing a few bottoms, and listen to music with a few clicks. Life wasn't always like this. Before Steve Jobs came along with the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macintosh, or Pixar, there were other inventors who helped slowly build our world today. One of them was Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison didn't live the most perfect life, he was almost deaf, had little actual education and was poor in his childhood, but that didn't stop him from…

.The Man Who Did It All Thomas Edison once said- “Not everything of value in life comes from books – experience the world.” As a child Thomas Edison learned that life is hard but, he didn’t let that stop him. He was always everywhere seeing and waiting to receive anything the world threw at him. He always put in the hard work and was there when someone needed help. Thomas Edison influenced the world of technology and transportation. Thomas Alva Edison was American inventor. He is also known to…

Nikola Tesla was an interesting scientist and ahead of his time. Nikola Tesla lived to be 86 years old. He was born on July 9 or 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Australia-Hungary. Tesla died of coronary thrombosis which is a blood clot in the flow of blood to the heart. Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943. He died at the age of 86 in New York City. He didn’t have any kids or a wife. Nikola Tesla’s inventions were he discovered the electric alternating current that is still used today. In 1891 Tesla…

Nikola Tesla and The War Of Currents When you are watching a movie and it gets just a little too loud it only takes a click of a button to fix that, and when you want to remember a moment forever all it takes is a little raise of a camera and a click. Nikola accomplished many great things in his lifetime. Simple things that make life easier are often overlooked, but we have Nikola Tesla to thank for many; Tesla developed the alternating-current electrical system that is widely used today.…

The light bulb that is common in today’s society was invented by none other than Thomas Edison in 1879, however, the first attempts in accomplishing so were made by Sir Humphry Davy in 1802. In 1878, Edison conducted countless hours of research into developing an incandescent lamp and he filed his first patent for “Improvement in Electrical Lights” on October 14, 1878. On November 4, 1879, he filed a patent once again utilizing a “Carbon filament or strip coiled and connected… to platina contact…

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 and later died January 7, 1943. He was born and raised in the Austrian Empire. Tesla received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he would become a naturalized citizen. He also work in new york city before he went on his own at the Edison Machine Works. In the wake of learning at the Realschule, Karlstadt (later…