Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-Croatian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist whose work laid the foundation for modern electrical technology. He is best known for developing the alternating current (AC) system, which enabled efficient long-distance electricity transmission and ultimately surpassed direct current (DC) systems. Tesla also made significant contributions to electromagnetism, radio, X-ray imaging, and wireless technologies. Although many of his ideas were not fully appreciated during his lifetime, he is now celebrated as one of the great visionary geniuses in the history of science and technology.
Quotes
- Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
- Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
- If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
- The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me.