Nicola Tesla: The man who made it possible.

There are some people in this world who are ordinary. They basically lead mundane lives and contend with the way things are. Then there are the extraordinary ones… who challenge the world around them and come up with new possibilities.

Nicola Tesla belonged to none of these categories. To put it in better words… if God himself were to bestow his presence upon us… he would have done it through Nicola Tesla. That’s the stature and honor this man deserves.

The sad part is that despite the things this man did for all of us, he was treated in the most disrespectful way and ultimately died bankrupt and alone in a New York City hotel.

Nicola Tesla is to be thanked for pretty much everything that makes your life and work easier. If it weren’t for him, you would still be sitting in a cave drawing paintings on walls. He was the one, who discovered alternating current, invented the AC Motor and discovered Wireless Power.

He was the first man to think that Electric Current could be transmitted wirelessly from one place to another. And so at the age of 35, he invented the Tesla Coil !!!

Now what exactly is a Tesla Coil?? Well… it’s kinda like an electric transformer… The only difference is that this Bad Boy step’s up the voltage to about 13 million volts or even much more than that…(depending on the size of the coil).  Tesla wanted to use its invention to pump the earth and the atmosphere with electricity. Knowing that the Earth is a conductor of electricity, he wanted to use this to his advantage to transmit power around the world.  He would famously demonstrate the concept of wireless power from time to time, by holding a bulb in his hand and making it glow.

Later on he came up with the plan to transmit wireless power globally by erecting a series of gigantic tesla coils around the world. Unfortunately this project could not materialize because Marconi used Tesla’s work to transmit a radio signal across the continent. This caused investors like JP Morgan to withdraw funding to Tesla’s projects.

Now… a couple of things might be bothering you… like if there’s electricity in the air… wouldn’t you die?? Well… to tell this in a better way…. The Tesla Coil emits electricity without harming humans…. It kinda works the same way as radio waves. They are around us but they don’t harm us… doesn’t mean that they don’t exist in the 1^st place… because if that were true… then guess what… you wouldn’t be able to listen to your favorite radio station while you were stuck in a traffic jam.

Tesla was a man who lived 200 years ahead of his time. He might not have won a single Nobel Prize but each of his inventions are priceless and much more valuable than those of Edison’s, Marconi’s and Roentgen’s put together. Tesla was a giver who sought nothing more in return than the respect of his fellow human beings. We will forever be in debt to him for all that he has done for the benefit of the world. To end with… I would like to share a quote by the man himself…. Nicola Tesla

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

Andrea Pasqua.