Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American physicist is known for the amazing discoveries he made during his lifetime. His breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power are world renowned. The genius was born in Croatia on July 10, 1856. His father was a priest while his mother managed the family's farm. Over his period of life, during various talks, he shared different thoughts that become popular over time. On his 163rd birth anniversary, we have made a list of Nikola Tesla's popular quotes on life and science by the inventor. Nikola Tesla Birth Anniversary Special: From Robots to Remote Control, 6 Modern Day Inventions We Need to Thank Tesla For.
Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission and in 1884 immigrated to the United States and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse. In his 86 years of life, Tesla filed more than 300 patents. As we remember the great mind, check out some beautiful thoughts on life, science and inventions. Adolf Hitler Birth Anniversary Special: These Quotes of the German Dictator Prove That he was a Great Orator.
On Nikola Tesla's 163rd birth anniversary, here are some of the popular quotes by the inventor
Quote Reads: I don't care that they stole my idea … I care that they don’t have any of their own.
Quote Reads: I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Quote Reads: Of all things, I liked books best.
Quote Reads: The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
Quote Reads: If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Quote Reads: The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
Quote Reads: As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.
In the 1890s Tesla invented electric oscillators, meters, improved lights and the high-voltage transformer known as the Tesla coil. He also experimented with X-rays and short-range demonstrations of radio communication two years before Guglielmo Marconi and piloted a radio-controlled boat around a pool in Madison Square Garden. In 1891, Tesla and Westing house together launched the first AC power system near Boston. In 1891, he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology. He is also credited with the discoveries of rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery.
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