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Electrical engineer and inventor · 1856–1943 · Science
Built the alternating current system that lights the world, staged lightning shows in Colorado, and died broke in a New York hotel room.
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“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
Tesla, quoted in the New York Times, 1915
Tesla arrived in New York in 1884 with a few coins and a letter of introduction to Edison. They fell out within a year over pay and over direct versus alternating current. His polyphase AC motor and transformer designs, licensed to George Westinghouse, won the so-called war of the currents and powered the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the Niagara Falls plant. In Colorado Springs he threw artificial lightning across his laboratory and claimed to have detected extraterrestrial signals. Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island, meant to send power without wires, ran out of money and was demolished. He kept filing patents, fed pigeons in Bryant Park, and died alone at the Hotel New Yorker.
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You can put that to the Nikola Tesla persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Nikola Tesla’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1856–1943, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Nikola Tesla persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Nikola Tesla’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1856–1943, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Nikola Tesla persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Nikola Tesla’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1856–1943, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Nikola Tesla persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Nikola Tesla’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1856–1943, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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