2. Name: Kristyn Fitzpatrick Class: World History B Teacher: Jacque Smith Assignment 1.4.2: Research of an Invention

3. Explaining what impact the invention had during the Industrial Revolution. Nikola Tesla invented many important inventions, but most Important of all was the alternating current. Before the invention of alternating current, daily life was different than today. There was no electric heat, no light switches, outlets, street lights, or even hot running water. There were light bulbs and generators but these were mostly powered by an energy source such as a battery. Because people didn’t know about alternating current as a medium of electricity, they didn’t care that they didn't have any of these modern-day standards yet. People had lived for thousands of years without alternating current. He was the true father of the electric age. He discovered the electric alternating current that powers the world. When he invented the modern A.C. transition distribution system it made the electric age happen. Nikola Tesla’s invention is used for electricity we use today for our houses, phones, fans, etc. His invention changed peoples live and how we live to day.

4. Born: July 10 th, 1856 Smiljan, Croatia Died: January 7 th, 1943 New York, A Wyndham Hotel Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Cause of death: Coronary thrombosis. Projects: Alternating current, high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments. Education: Graz University of Technology (1875–1878), Gymnasium Karlovac (1870–1873), University of Graz. Awards: IEEE Edison Medal, IEEE Nikola Tesla Award, John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, Elliott Cresson Medal. Nikola Tesla Biography

5. Nikola Tesla created the alternating current because he thought it would be much more safer and more efficient than Edison's direct current. The alternating current made a circle that went through everything that needed to be powered and the alternating current was made in about 1890. To prove his version was safer, Nikola Tesla plugged his alternating current into an AC system and purposely shot electricity through his body and he glowed, and lived to tell the story about it. With the alternating current Tesla could have made unlimited free energy but because of Edison's patent he couldn’t. Alternating Current: Nikola Tesla

6. How it works Energy is produced by generators in power plants - common sources today are wind, nuclear and hydro power. The power is transferred over power lines all across countries, changing direction and going back and forth between source and consumer at a rate of 60 times per second (60Hz). Alternating Current is great for long distances but not for powering electronics - AC flows into our houses and is converted to Direct Current by a step-down transformer in each device.

7. Things you didn’t know about Nikola Tesla! In 1888 Nikola Tesla met George Westinghouse, who was another inventor working with AC, and he sold him his patents and then he went to work for him. Nikola Tesla struck out on his own again, but in 1895, a fire destroyed Nikola Tesla’s whole Laboratory, and lots of Tesla’s research and equipment got burdened up in the fire. Nikola Tesla lived the last ten years of his life in a hotel room at the Hotel New Yorker, where he died of a heart attack, January 7, 1943. These two men worked together for a long time. The one on the right is George Westinghouse. The one on the left is Nikola Tesla.

8. Important thing to know about Nikola Tesla! If Nikola Tesla didn’t invent the AC current system for transmitting electricity, we would have to build a DC power station every 2 miles. Another of Tesla’s important contributions was the radio. The technology that Tesla began developing in 1892 is still used widely today in use today especially in the cell phones and other wireless device we have today. Tesla also invented the neon lighting, radars, a type of hydro- electric power plant, the AC induction motor, and many other things that are important to the world today. Nikola Tesla - 1st Electric Car in 1918 Shut Down By The Banksters JP Morgan & Rockefellers. Cell Pones we use today is because of Nikola Tesla.

9. Some Cars of Nikola Tesla! Nikola Tesla's 'Black Magic' Wireless Touring Car

11. Pictures of Nikola Tesla

17. He was a incredible man. neon lighting, radars, a type of hydro- electric power plant, the AC induction motor, and many other things that are important to the world today!