Sunday Special!-The Smartest man on the Earth!

Sunday Special!-The Smartest man on the Earth!

Nikola Tesla  July 10,1856-January 07,1943

A journalist once asked Albert Einstein what it felt like to be the smartest man on Earth. Einstein reportedly replied,

“I don’t know. You should ask Nikola Tesla.”

Nikola Tesla invented:

Alternating Current Power Systems,The Development of Radio,Fluorescent and Neon Lighting,The ,The Hydroelectric Power Plant at Niagara Falls,The Tesla Coil,Tesla Valve,Induction motor,Tesla oscillator-3-phase electric power,Tesla Drone,Voilet Ray ,Telegraphy,Vaccum Variable Capacitor,World wireless system.Tesla Turbine.

▪️On January 7, 1943, in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, one of the world’s greatest minds passed away. Nikola Tesla was 86. He had lived a remarkable life—one devoted entirely to science.

As a child, his future seemed set: he was expected to become a priest.

"That future loomed over me like a black cloud," Tesla later wrote.

But fate intervened. During a near-fatal battle with cholera, Tesla struck a deal with his father:

 “During one of the attacks, when everyone thought I was dying, my father rushed in and told me, ‘You’ll get better.’ I still remember how pale he looked as he tried to comfort me with words even he didn’t believe.

‘Maybe I will recover,’ I said, ‘if you let me study engineering instead of theology.’

He answered solemnly, ‘You’ll attend the best technical school in Europe.’

Right then, I knew he meant it. It was as if a heavy weight had lifted from my soul.”

▪️Shortly after, Tesla recovered—thanks to an old woman who brewed him a bean-based herbal remedy—and began his path toward scientific greatness. While attending a lecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Tesla observed the operation of a Gramme machine

(A "Gramme machine," also known as a Gramme dynamo,an early type of electric generator, specifically a direct current (DC) generator invented by Zénobe Gramme in the late 19th century. It was the first electric generator efficient)

and began to question the efficiency of direct current motors. When he shared his idea for using alternating current instead, his professor, Jakob Pöschl, publicly ridiculed the concept as impossible.

History would prove him very wrong.

Though most American textbooks highlight Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison as pioneers of electricity, it was Nikola Tesla who turned electricity into a usable force for humanity. He didn’t just experiment—he delivered systems that worked. Alternating current, induction motors, wireless transmission—all ideas born in Tesla’s mind.

Today, a statue of Tesla stands with his cane atop one of his AC motors, gazing out at Niagara Falls—the site of the first hydroelectric power plant built using his patents. The standard 60 Hz frequency used across the United States to this day? That was Tesla’s doing.

His genius helped bring light to America.

And his story still inspires those who dare to challenge convention.

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known

for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.

Tesla demonstrates “wireless” power transmission in his Houston Street laboratory in March 1899.

Nikola Tesla's legend lives on in Niagara Falls

Above: Tesla Monument at Goat Island, Niagara Falls, New York.  Gift of Yugoslavia to the United States, 1976. 
Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls.  This was the final victory of Tesla's Alternating Current over Edison's Direct Current.  The monument was the work of Croatian sculptor Frane Krsinic.

Above: Tesla Monument at Goat Island, Niagara Falls, New York.  Gift of Yugoslavia to the United States, 1976. 
Niagara Falls Hydro-Electric Power Plant was the birthplace of the electrification of the world.

Niagara Falls, New York, the First Major Hydroelectric Power Plant in the World - Tesla's Greatest Achievement

Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse built the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls and started the electrification of the world.  Adam's Power Station (Power House), the only remains of the old Niagara Falls Power Plant, may become a science museum.  This museum would be devoted to Niagara Falls Power Plant, the first hydro-electric power plant in the world, this location is a great turning stone in the history of electricity.  Adam's Station (Power House) is registered as a National Landmark Historical Site.  About eight million tourists a year visit the American side of Niagara Falls.  About 20 million tourists a year visit the Canadian side.  Niagara Falls is one of the most beautiful places in the world, where the electrification of the world started.  Niagara Falls are the final victory of Tesla's Polyphase Alternating Current (AC) Electricity, which is today lighting the entire globe. 

"The evolution of electric power from the discovery of Faraday in 1831 to the initial great installation of the Tesla polyphase system in 1896 is undoubtedly the most tremendous event in all engineering history"

-Dr. Charles F. Scott, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Yale University and former President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers

Above: Nikola Tesla designed the first hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls.  This was the final victory of Tesla's Alternating Current over Edison's Direct Current.  This is the interior of Power House No. 1 of the Niagara Falls Power Company (1895-1899).

Above: View of the main water-fall at the Niagara river.  Beginning of the 20th century.

Above: Plaque on Tesla's Monument on Goat Island, Niagara Falls, listing the names of the inidividuals who contributed to building of the monument. Miloje Popovic, one of the names listed, is a Board Member of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York. Dr. Milan Bulaic, who's name is not included by mistake, was the original initiator of the Tesla Monument to be placed on Goat Island, Niagara Falls.

Above: The front view of the Tesla Monument on Goat Island, Niagara Falls.

Searched,compiled and illustrated by Tejinder Kamboj

-Tejinder Kamboj

  

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