What experiments did Nikola Tesla do?

Answer 1

From Graz, Nikola went to the University of Prague to continue his education. Later, in Budapest he developed his ideas for using alternating current in an induction motor. He did not have enough money to see this project through and it was only after he had gone to work for the Continental Edison Company, based in Paris, in 1882 that he was able to do this. He made his first induction motor in Strassburg in 1883, as an individual project, in his own time. This company was not interested in his alternating current machines.

Somewhat frustrated, Tesla set sail for America and arrived in New York, with four cents, a few of his own poems and calculations for a flying machine, in 1884.

He entered the employment of Thomas Edison, who recognised Tesla's genius. Edison was involved in building power stations that would produce direct current to power electric lighting in New York. He said that the direct current motors and dynamos would never be replaced by the alternating current machines of Tesla's, but he must have had a feeling that Tesla was well in front of his own inventions, as he was quite willing to employ him.

Eventually Nikola Tesla left the Edison Electric Company, which owed him a bonus payment of fifty thousand dollars for his successful completion of some important work. When the time came to pay him, Edison stated that he had only been joking when he had offered the bonus. The difference in backgrounds and methods was also a contributory factor in Nikola's decision to resign.