CIUNAC

FULL NAME: Poclin Heredia Jordy.

SUBJECT: Nikola Tesla.

TEACHER: Melissa Campos.

LEVEL: Intermediate 3.
2017
 NIKOLA TESLA
BIOGRAPHY:
Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia (then Austria-Hungary), in the bosom of a
Serbian family, on July 10, 1856. He was a physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer
and famous inventor who revolutionized the theory of inventing and developing the AC
(Alternating Current).
His father was Milutin Tesla, a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the jurisdiction of
Sremski Karlovci, and his mother uka Mandici, a housewife of Serbian descent, and who
devoted part of his time as a self-taught scientist to the development of small household
appliances.
The family moved to Gospi in 1862. Tesla attended the gymnasium of Karlovac, where he
completed four years in three curriculum.
When he was 17 years, Tesla was infected by cholera. He was sick in bed for nine months
and close to death on several occasions. His father promised to send you to the best school
of engineering if recovering from illness (his father wanted to devote himself to the
priesthood).
Later studies of electrical engineering at the University of Graz, in the city of the same
name, in 1875. While there, he studied the uses of alternating current. Some sources claim
that he graduated from the University of Graz, however, the University says that did not
receive any degree and that it not continued beyond the second semester of the third year,
during which stopped attending classes. In December 1878, he left Graz and left with
relatives. His friends thought that he had drowned in the River Mura. He went to Maribor,
(today Slovenia), where he got his first job as an Assistant of engineering work that played
for a year. In March 1879, her mother moved up to there to beg her son return home, but
Nikola refused. During this period, he suffered a nervous breakdown. Tesla was later
persuaded by his father to attend the Charles University in Prague, attended during the
summer of 1880. However, when his father died, left the University, only completing a
course.
In January 1880, two of his uncles together enough money to send it to Prague, where Tesla
had intended to study University, but unfortunately, it came too late to register; also not
studied Greek or Czech: compulsory subjects. In 1881, he moved to Budapest to work at a
telegraph company. In 1882, he joined the Continental Edison Company in France to design
and improve electrical equipment. In June 1884, he moved to New York City with little
more than a letter of recommendation from Charles Batchelor, a former employer. In the
letter of recommendation to Thomas Edison, Batchelor wrote, "I know two great men, you
are one of them; the other is this young man Edison hired Tesla to work on his Edison
Machine Works. He started working for Edison as a simple electrical engineer, solving
some of the problems of the company. In 1885, he argued that it could design engines and
generators of Edison improving their quality and performance.
In 1886, Tesla founded his own company, the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. First
investors were not in accordance with their plans for the development of an alternating
current motor and eventually relieved him of his position in the company. He worked as a
laborer in New York from 1886 to 1887 to stay and raise capital for his next project. In
1887, he built a brushless induction motor, powered with alternating current, which
appeared in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers currently IEEE (Institute of
electrical and Electronics Engineers) in 1888. However, Galileo Ferraris had developed the
same design several months before independently. In the same year, he developed the
principle of his Tesla coil and began working with George Westinghouse at the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh laboratories. Westinghouse
listened to his ideas for Polyphase systems, which would allow transmission of alternating
current over long distances.
In 1888, his first practical system design took place to generate and transmit AC power
system. In the spring of 1891, Tesla held demonstrations with various machines before the
American Institute of engineers at the University of Columbia. He demonstrated this way
all kinds of devices could be fed through a single cable without a return conductor.
In 1893, designed a wireless communication system and built an antenna of over 30 meters
in height, the Wardencliff Tower, which aim to transmit electrical energy without wires,
with the same principle of operation as the radio. He patented more than 700 inventions
such as an electrical submarine in 1898 and a small ship that would capture energy emitted
by the Wardencliff Tower that would be stored in its batteries.
Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, in the
city of New York (United States). His body was found after ignoring the sign "do not
disturb" that had placed in the door two days earlier.
 INVENTION:
Wireless transfer of electrical energy by means of electromagnetic waves. Later he tried
to develop a system to send power wirelessly over long distances and wanted to
implement it in the project of the Tower of Wardenclyffe which had the purpose of
establishing a global system of communications and that ended in failure because
before that it could finish the project, the investor, banker J. P. Morgan, left to finance
Tesla investigations due to the financial infeasibility of this Besides that Guillermo
Marconi managed by Atlantic radio signal transmissions in less time, losing the interest
of Morgan in the project.