Nikola Tesla | Biography, Facts, & Inventions
When you think of the great inventors of the time, some names like Henry Ford, Wright Brothers, and Thomas Edison come to your mind but there is one name that is not so well known. When you turn on the power plug to charge your cell phone or turn on the refrigerator, you have Nikola Tesla to thank. This is the story of a forgotten genius and the story begins at the end.
On January 7, 1943, a maid working at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City, USA, found the body of an 86-year-old man in room number 3327, who had made the hotel his home for the past several decades. He ate a diet of warm milk and biscuits and was very enthusiastic about feeding the pigeons outside. One of the greatest inventors of all time slipped into obscurity and died in a coma. There was a reason for what happened to Tesla which will become clear to you at the end of the story.
Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, a city in present-day Croatia. Tesla was born during stormy rain and lightning. According to family legends, the midwife said at his birth that the boy would be a child of darkness, to which his mother replied that he would not be a child of darkness but of light. When Tesla was five years old, he saw his older brother fall from a horse and then die. Due to this incident,
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