Nikola Tesla Research Paper

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The Generous Inventor (Quote)“I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them, for years. But there was one that was different. She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.” (Master 194). These words were spoken by a broke man alone in a New York hotel room that had only been living on milk and Nabisco crackers. His name was Nikola Tesla and he had invented alternating current, the radio, dreamed of supplying wireless power to the whole world and received honorary P.h.d’s from various universities across the world. Nikola Tesla was a wealthy man but his dreams weren’t about making a profit and that caused him to lose all of his money. Tesla held over valuble700 patents but he hardly ever forced people to pay him for his ideas. Nikola Tesla is not a well-known inventor because he, wasn’t focused on getting recognition, Thomas Edison pushed Nikola’s inventions out of the lime light., his inventions weren’t profitable or practical for the time and he also suffered from mental disorders. Nikola Tesla spent more hours in his lab alone than he did getting funding for his laboratory. As Margaret Cheney states in on of her novels about Nikola Tesla, Master of lightning, he threw parties at his house but he would often leave mid-celebration to sneak into the laboratory(126). This reclusive behavior was tied to Tesla’s incessant drive to invent and create. In another one of Margaret Cheney’s novels, Man out of Time, She explains that his schedule often gave the impression that there was more than one of him. His days and nights blended together because he would rarely close his eyes to sleep (194). Nikola’s obsession with invention never faded even as he advanced in age, he spent all of his time trying to create his death ray before he died (Thomas). Even on Nikola’s 78th birthday he was still in his lab working (“Inventor”). He only stopped working because
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