Why is nikola tesla deified?

nikola tesla is a very great inventor. His invention has changed the development of human society and people's way of life. Now our daily life is related to this inventor.

But his life is full of controversy and mystery, and even he was once forgotten by the scientific community. Obviously, when we were young, we learned about Edison in textbooks. Everyone knew about this great inventor, but we rarely heard about Tesla's deeds.

I only vaguely heard that he was related to alternating current. Later, I learned more about him through the Internet and rumors. Strangely, Tesla, which is rarely mentioned in the scientific community, has been deified by people in the folk;

I think he is the closest person to God. Because his thoughts are too advanced, no one knew Tesla at that time. Even now, some of Tesla's ideas are advanced.

Let's take a look at this great inventor who is rumored to be between a madman, a man and a god.

Tesla was born in Croatia on July 1th, 1856. Like the dog blood TV series we have seen, the birth of a great man is always accompanied by abnormal astronomical phenomena, and Tesla is no exception.

It is rumored that he was born in a thunderstorm, and the midwife at that time was also very superstitious, thinking that this thunder and lightning was a bad omen, but Tesla's mother didn't think so. She said that her son was the son of light, and maybe this lightning meant the birth of the father of human alternating current.

As a child, Tesla didn't show anything extraordinary like normal children, but he was very interested in mathematics and physics, and like all successful scientists, he was full of curiosity about unknown nature.

But his parents don't have much hope for this little son, because they think Tesla is not as clever as his brother Dane.

When Tesla was five years old, his brother unfortunately fell off his horse and died, which made his parents sad and worried about Tesla, because his body was thin and he was often ill.

So his father decided to let Tesla go to school near his village and become a priest when he grew up. At the age of 17, Tesla graduated from high school, and it was not long before he was infected with cholera and almost lost his life.

When he was ill, Tesla begged his parents to send him to study engineering if he could live. He didn't want to be a priest. Desperate parents agreed to their son's request.

in p>1875, Tesla studied physics, mathematics and mechanics at Graz Polytechnic University in Austria. The university was also intermittent, because of the tuition problem and the national turmoil at that time.

It was not until 1882 that 26-year-old Tesla found his first job in life, and from then on, he began to hold grudges with his lifelong rival Edison.

His first job was to work for Edison as an engineer in Edison's branch in Paris, during which Tesla designed the model of induction motor.

At this time, Edison has achieved great success and his career is in full swing. Edison is not so much an inventor as a very shrewd businessman. He not only makes money, but also is good at managing his own reputation. This is why Edison's reputation is louder and better than Tesla's.

Now we think that the electric light bulb was invented by Edison in 1879, but this statement is not entirely accurate.

The first electric light bulb was an arc lamp, which was invented by Sir humphry davy in 187. In the next 5 years, many inventors devoted themselves to perfecting this kind of electric lamp, improving its service life and safety;

But lighting requires not only electric lights, but also a complete set of equipment and systems for generating and transmitting electric energy. This is where Edison came into play. Edison bought the patent of electric light, but it perfected the design of electric light, which enabled it to be mass-produced and put into use.

And the most important thing is that Edison invented the direct current (DC) system to realize the transmission of electric energy, which made it possible for electric lamps to illuminate people.

but the efficiency of DC system is very low, and with the increase of distance, electric energy will begin to be lost in the form of heat. It is impossible to realize ultra-long-distance power transmission, which has great disadvantages.

At the same time, the young Tesla in Paris had different ideas, and he also knew the problems in the DC system, so he designed an induction motor, which can use alternating current to transmit kinetic energy and generate alternating current with higher voltage.

the advantages of alternating current are its low cost and high efficiency, and it can realize long-distance power transmission, and the energy lost in this process is also very low.

in p>1884, Tesla was introduced to work in Edison's laboratory, which was the first time Tesla had close contact with Edison, and it was this unpleasant cooperation that made the two men get married.

during two years' work, Tesla solved many design problems for Edison, and redesigned the DC system for him, but Edison's promised reward for Tesla fell through.

and Edison has been opposed to Tesla's idea of using alternating current, so Tesla angrily left Edison's lab and set up his own company.

Although Tesla has designed an induction motor and a complete set of AC power generation and transmission system, it has been suppressed and discredited by Edison.

Edison encouraged his supporters to March against the use of alternating current, and published many articles slandering Tesla. He also planned a series of incidents in which stray cats and dogs were electrocuted by alternating current, and he also used alternating current to execute prisoners on death row.

It brings people a kind of subconscious mind that alternating current is very dangerous, which makes people think that alternating current will endanger the safety of public utilities and household electricity. Under the suppression of Edison, Tesla, who was not famous at that time, certainly could not complete the important task of promoting alternating current.

So he sold his patent to Westinghouse Electric Company (a competitor of Edison Company) and got a large patent fee, which is estimated to be the most profitable in Tesla's life.

Malicious smearing can never hide the advantages of alternating current over direct current.

In p>1893, Westinghouse Electric Company won the contract to light the Chicago World Expo, and alternating current showed its advantages and reliability for the first time in front of the world, and finally became the American power standard.

This is the most practical and greatest achievement that Tesla has left for mankind, and it is also the most proud time of Tesla in the first half of his life. After alternating current, Tesla always likes to spend time on some ideas that seem very unconstrained. Some of these ideas have been realized, and some still seem to be fantasies.

Besides, Tesla missed the Nobel Prize twice while pursuing these wild ideas.

Tesla was the first person to put forward wireless power transmission and wireless information transmission. The source of this idea was his high-voltage high-frequency transformer, commonly known as Tesla coil.

in p>1891, he showed his Tesla coil to people in the lecture hall of Columbia University in new york. 25, volts surrounded his body in an "electric halo" and lit up cathode fluorescent lamp in his hand from a distance.

This magical phenomenon fascinated Tesla, and he spent the rest of his life on wireless lighting and wireless long-distance power transmission.

In an experiment, the light-emitting tube he used irradiated the camera sensitive film in the box, which made the film exposed. Tesla found this phenomenon and thought that something had penetrated the box, but without in-depth research, he concluded that it was caused by an unknown particle.

Later, Roentgen also saw the same phenomenon, and found X-rays with strong penetrating ability and won the Nobel Prize. Tesla's research on X-rays was also destroyed in a fire in 1895.

similarly, he gave up the radio signal transmission that he first predicted, but insisted on the wireless power transmission. Obviously, the radio signal transmission was much easier to realize, and Marconi finally transmitted the radio signal from Britain to the other side of the ocean for the first time in 1899. And won the Nobel Prize and became the father of radio.

It can be said that Tesla coil made Tesla deviate from the direction in the future research. If it were not so obsessed with the wireless power brought by Tesla coil, Tesla could still come up with some practical inventions.

It was Tesla who made himself poor in order to realize his dream of long-distance power transmission. In 191, he was already in financial difficulties and asked for help everywhere, hoping that someone could help him. Finally, Tesla persuaded Morgan, the then rich man, to build the Walden Crever Tower.

this 6-meter-high electric tower is actually an enlarged version of Tesla coil, which has no other function except making amazing artificial lightning, and it also makes people panic;

With the development and maturity of radio signal transmission, Morgan also gave up funding for Tesla. Since then, Tesla has not only been unable to conduct research in this field, but has also left itself in debt. Finally, this big electric tower was also demolished.

In his later years, Tesla lived in seclusion, and his life was hard, and food and clothing became a problem. Of course, he was unable to pursue his dreams. Moreover, he basically had no friends, and he didn't associate with anyone. People thought he was suffering from serious mental illness and always said things that people didn't understand at that time.

instead of practical inventions, he will propose something that transcends that era. For example, he once predicted the earliest mobile communication, that is, the modern mobile phone, saying that people can put this thing in their pockets in the future to realize long-distance communication.

Tesla also said that radio waves can be used to detect objects, that is, radar appeared later, as well as autonomous driving and weapons made by particle accelerators, which can emit death rays and instantly destroy enemies.

it can be seen that these ideas are too advanced, but now it seems that most of them have been realized. Only what he said about wireless power transmission is still impossible in our view.

Tesla lived in a hotel in new york in his later years, and his former employer, Westinghouse, paid his rent and a "consulting fee" of $125 per month. Until the end of Tesla's life, it was said that it was a consulting fee, but it was just kindness.

Tesla died at the New Yorker Hotel in p>1943 at the age of 86. There was no one around him when he died, because he never married. It was rumored that Tesla was not interested in women. Some people said that Tesla was busy with his ideals all his life and thought that women would disturb his thoughts.

Two days after Tesla's death, a maid found him, and the doctor ruled that he died of a heart attack.

Tesla is undoubtedly a pure inventor. He started a new electrical era for mankind. He has hundreds of patents in his life. He is indifferent to fame and fortune. He is not a businessman who knows the world like Edison, but he is withdrawn, so he has not left a good impression on people. That's why we always hear about Edison, but seldom about nikola tesla.

Therefore, he left many legends among the people. For example, some people said that nikola tesla's big electric tower caused the Tunguska Big Bang, and others said that Tesla found the earth's * * * vibration frequency and could break the earth with its big electric tower.

These are all hearsay and incorrect rumors. He is an inventor who has been indifferent to fame and fortune all his life.

It is obvious that elon musk, the best entrepreneur and engineer today, is a big fan of nikola tesla.