tesla

     

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Trivia about tesla

  • Changing the electricity industry, this coil man advocated the use of alternating current
  • Around 1900 he built a 12-million volt electric coil, but fell short with a worldwide radio transmitter
  • This electricity pioneer & coil inventor lived as a virtual recluse & was obsessed with raising pigeons
  • In 1885 he left Edison because he was refused a raise to $25 a week; 6 years later, he invented his coil
  • This electricity investigator is a hero in the Balkans & a museum in Belgrade was named for him
  • In 2006 Serbia issued several coins honoring this electricity pioneer
  • (Alex reports from aboard the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls.) The huge hydroelectric potential of the falls led to a war of inventors; it was only settled when Westinghouse was given the right to build the A.C. generators that were designed & patented by this man