Essays on Nikola Tesla

Biography

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, as a fourth child to parents Milutin Tesla and Djuka Mandic. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Priest while his mother was an inventor of household appliances. Although pressured by his father to join the priesthood, Tesla was mostly interested in sciences. His calling was towards electrical engineering, for which he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria, the Realschule, Karlstadt and the University of Prague. Tesla moved to Budapest and began his career working with a telephone company in 1881 and it was during this time ...

1 – How has the music industry been affected by the internet and digital downloading? I find this question rather diverting as the situation of music industry has changed dramatically over the past few decades, especially with the empowerment of people using the Internet. This issue can be considered from two sides: Internet has made music more available for people, though, it is harder and harder for musicians and singers to earn money, making music. To my mind, one can find enough information, researching this question, as digital downloading became on the most popular subject under discussion. 2 – ...

Nikola Tesla was physicist, inventor and electrical engineer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the inventor of the alternating current-rays and lights as well as the laser during his career of life. During this period, the Edison’s lamps were inefficient and weak when they were using direct current. The system of direct current had several limitations such as the system could be neither transported for long disturbances nor stepped up to high voltage for long distance transmission. In addition to that, the uses of direct current system need many sub-power stations which were costly. ...

The history of electrical systems can be traced back to 48 years ago. It began with the invention of the arc light systems. In those days played a significant role. Starting with Edison's incandescent of lighting systems and his competitors, then design of power systems in the 20th century. The significant development of alternating current begin 1880s. In 1884, Lucien Gaulard in Turin, Italy: he developed the transformer together with power transmission system from Turin to Lanzo. The experimenting of alternating current transmission power. It uses the ideas of step up transformer which enables power to be transmitted in ...

If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Chicago. There are several reasons that I would choose this city. If I lived in Chicago, I would enjoy its active nightlife. Chicago is the heartbeat of the Midwestern United States, and offers unique, diverse employment opportunities. From the high-tech industry to fashion and the arts, the third-largest city in the US has quite a palette of possible career prospects. In a city like Chicago, I would network more with others who have the same interests. Lastly, access to more institutions of higher learning make Chicago a special metropolis would help ...

Introduction

Wireless electricity conduction is a fascinating subject. Such technology is still in its early stages, but the importance of its development will be significant to humanity worldwide. Statistics indicate that the world population is increasing by the day. Many nations are constantly trying to improve the quality of living of their citizens. These trends only serve to reveal the growing demand for energy globally. Wireless electricity is a modern technological concept of transmission of electrical energy to devices without the use of wires. With this technology, it is be virtually possible to power or charge gadgets, without wiring them to a power ...

Nikola Tesla is widely known for his great achievements in the field of physics. Once he turned upside down the people's ideas on the questions of commuted current and electricity, making a big step forward in the study of these phenomena. Much of his activity was beyond explanation, what as caused many myths around his personality, and I will try my best to convey the main objectives and achievements of his works in my paper. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in the village of Smiljan (Croatia today) in the family of Serbian Greek Church priest (Childress, ...

Nikola Tesla, in the year 1987 filed several series of patents that touched on everything that was needed to generate electricity by use of alternating current (AC). Tesla pointed out all the inefficiencies of direct current (DC) electrical power house by Edison. The secret to pinpointing this lay in the innovation of alternative current. According to him, alternative current provided cyclic energies and could send electrical energy first one way along distribution lines using multiple waves by use of polyphase principle. Prior to his inventing of AC could be converted into one point direction using inefficient device referred as ...

Research Paper: Electric Power through 1932

The term “American Dream” can be described as the traditional social ideals of freedom, equality and opportunity achievable by all individuals in the U.S. It traces its roots to the declaration of American independence when everyone was regarded to be equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, pursuit to happiness and liberty. It established an ideology which provided for freedoms guaranteeing success, upward social mobility accomplished through determination and hard work. This necessitated people to work hard to pursue higher education which was perceived to be a direct ticket towards its accomplishment. However, this dream was threatened after the ...

Introduction

One of the revolutionary inventions in electrical engineering field was Tesla coil. Nikola Tesla invented Tesla coil in 1891. Tesla coil is primarily used to produce high voltage and high frequency alternating current electricity. Tesla coils are capable of producing high voltages better than artificial means of producing the same. “It takes the output from a 120vAC to a several kilovolt transformer and driver circuit and steps it up to an extremely high voltage. Voltages can get to be well above 1,000,000 volts and are discharged in the form of electrical arcs” (UCSC). Very popular in early part of ...