1. A Genius Unparralled

2. Brilliant child Mean father with a big library Mother supported his creativity

3. Austrian Polytechnic School University of Prague Left for America! – 1884

4. Once in America, he immediately found work with one of the greatest minds in science…

7. “An electric current of constant direction, having a magnitude that does not vary or varies only slightly.” ~Dictionary.com

8. “An electric current that reverses direction at regular intervals having a magnitude that varies continuously in sinusoidal manner” ~Dictionary.com

10. George Westinghouse bought Tesla’s polyphase system (which is a means of distributing alternating-current electrical power) in 1885

11. The Tesla-Westinghouse AC system soon beat out Edison’s DC system…

12. The public was wary of AC after it had been called “dangerous” Tesla Phase 2 AC electric motor

13. Tesla became a U.S. citizen in 1891

14. Wireless World Broadcasting Tower Financial problems Labor problems

15. “He expected to provide worldwide communications and to furnish facilities for sending pictures, messages, weather warnings, and stock reports…”

16. The rest of his ideas remained pictures on a page…

17. Undiagnosed OCD Hated pearls, loved crystal

18. Nikola hated the sight of small paper squares floating in a dish of liquid. They gave him a “peculiar and awful” taste in his mouth…

19. Tesla counted his steps…

20. He calculated the cubical content of coffee cups, soup plates, and other dishes; if he didn’t, the meal wouldn’t taste very good…

21. “All repeated acts or operations I preformed had to be divisible by three, and if I didn’t, I felt compelled to do it all over again, even if it took hours,” – Nikola Tesla

23. High-frequency transformer

24. Input of 120 v Steps it up incredibly high

25. “Voltages can get to be well above 1,000,000 volts and are discharged in the form of electrical arcs. Tesla himself got arcs up to 1000,000,000 volts,” – Tesla Society

26. His most important discovery Experiments in early 1900

27. The Earth can be used as a conductor Like a tuning fork!

28. Plenty of potential Never got the chance to prove them

29. Nikola Tesla died on January 7 th, 1943 of heart failure…

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