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Nikola Tesla was a phenomenal engineer and inventor, who may have had some mental issues but never let that prevent him from doing amazing things. My interest in Nikola Tesla comes from his work including electric power. As an electrical engineer I am obviously interested in electricity myself. When he was nineteen years of age he started studying electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria. There he was an excellent student. In June of 1884, Tesla traveled to New York…

Nikola Tesla is widely regarded as one of the greatest inventing minds of the 20th century. Throughout his life, Tesla's obsession over his work allowed him to make numerous contributions to the world of electricity, many of which helped to usher in the high tech era which we are accustomed to today. Most people are aware of at least one of his discoveries, whether it is alternating current, wireless communication, or wireless controlling, but few people are aware that Tesla may have made…

Thomas Alva Edison is undoubtedly the most influential American from the 20th century. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847 (Hart 222-225). When he first began school, “Edison’s teacher thought he was addled” (Allaby and Gjertsen 13), and his mother soon pulled him out. As a homeschooled child, Edison became an avid entrepreneur at a young age (Allaby and Gjertsen 14-23). He sold newspapers on a train as well as candy and fruit to supplement his earnings. When Edison found an empty train car,…

Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere were two brothers who worked together in developing the first motion picture. The oldest brother, Auguste Lumiere was born on October 19, 1862 and Louis Lumiere was born on October 5, 1864 in France. They gained inspiration from their father, Antoine Lumiere, as he ran a business of manufacturing and supplying photographic equipment. In addition both brothers attended Technical School as they were really bright in the science field. Since the Lumiere brothers…

Have you heard about Benjamin Franklin? He is the one that discovered electricity. He is one very important person. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn’t be warm in the winter and we wouldn’t be cooled in the summer. He also invented the lightning bolt, bifocal eyeglasses, and the armonica. He also invented the franklin stove to keep houses warm. Benjamin Franklin was born January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. His father (Josiah Franklin) had 17 kids. Josiah Franklin had two wives, Abiah Folger…

The Legacy of Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla is easily considered one of the world’s greatest inventors. His inventions in electricity have shaped the way we use technology today. His technological advances were so ahead of his time that Nikola Tesla’s fame and recognition did not come until after his death, which is what makes his legacy so significant. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, a town located in what is today Croatia. Tesla’s knack for invention was inspired by his mother, Djuka…

history. Shouldn’t you know about him? Well, I think you should. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor born in 1856 in a small village in Serbia during the Austrian regime. In 1884 Tesla emigrated into the United States to work for the famous scientist Thomas Alva Edison in New York City. If Tesla had stayed in Serbia, he might had died in the First world war and we couldn’t define modern era as it is today. Tesla shouldn’t have stayed in Serbia if he wanted to achieve his dreams.…

When Melies was only at a young age, he started to get passionate about the arts. He decided when he was younger he was going to perused a career in stage design and puppetry. He made it in what he pursued to become but because he was really brilliant. It guided him to become huge in the film industry for a short time. Now with Porter, he wasn’t as successful like Melies in the film industry. Porter had experience with electrical engineering unlike Melies. Because he was well experience with…

amount of inventors, engineers and futurists emerged. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His passion for electrical engineer was instigated by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who built him numerous gadgets while he was growing up. While Tesla has attending the University of Prague in Graz, Austria, he became acquainted with the Gramme dynamo, which was used as an add-on generator in manufacturing and farming machinery. Tesla took advantage of this generator to convert it into…

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He married Mary Stilwell in 1871 and they had three children together: Marion Estelle Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Jr., and William Leslie Edison. Mary died at the age of 29 due to medical complications. Edison later married another woman, Mina Miller in 1886 and they also had three children together: Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison, and Theodore Miller Edison. Edison was a telegraph operator from when he was 15 until he was 22.…