But for most of the later twentieth century, not a lot of people knew him (although the good news is that recently, he has been gaining more and more publicity).ĭespite his relative obscurity later on, Tesla was well known in his own time. It is safe to say that without this man, the 21st century would not exist as we know it. He ultimately died alone in a hotel room after failing to sell a giant Death Ray to the US government. However, a combination of poor business decisions, economic trouble, and pressures from arch-rival (but not enemy) Thomas Edison eventually led to the end of his good fortunes, and he acquired obsessive/compulsive tendencies and other eccentricities. He's also credited with a lot of early theoretical work on electromagnetic radiation that was later expanded into radar.
Other patents of his include the equipment for radio, vertical take-off and landing gear, fluorescent light bulbs, and a radio-control mechanism that contained the earliest practical example of a logic gate.
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American electrical genius, brilliant engineer, Mad Scientist, possibly asexual (or just celibate, voluntarily or not), pigeon-loving weirdo, and exceedingly poor businessman.īorn to Serb parents in the village of Smiljan (Austrian Empire at the time, Croatia today) and immigrant to the United States, Tesla is best known for his eponymous electrical transformer, the Tesla Coil, closely followed by his development of the first feasible alternating current power generator, ultimately built at Niagara Falls.
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