When we talk about the electric generator Nikola Tesla invented we could refer to 2 different inventions. The U.S. Patent 0447921 - Alternating Electric Current Generator - 1891 Is one. Us Patent 428057 - Pyromagneto-Electric Generator is another one.
Nikola Tesla is a non longer living person so we can not ask him this question. To my mind, it just was the thing he beleived he had to do.
Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. At first, he intended to specialize in physics and mathematics, but soon he became fascinated with electricity.
Cause he felt like it!
Electricity was not invented by anyone but God. Man have been working on it since ancient time. Nikola Tesla invented his system to reproduce electricity in an alternate mode call ac current.
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He was properly called Dr. Nikola Tesla. He earn his doctorate by his work through his life.
If you're talking about DC vs AC, the man who found the most ways to use electricity and should be considered one of the founders of modern electricity is Nikola Tesla. Despite what many schools teach, Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. Nikola Tesla was the original inventor, Thomas Edison only adjusted it to be "sellable." Thomas Edison was an entrepreneur, not a scientist. He was interested in making money, not creating things. Nikola Tesla is practically the founder of all modern electricity, before Tesla we were using DC, which is direct current. This method was very inefficient, and required lots of power plants. Meanwhile, AC or alternate current, invented by Nikola Tesla, was much more efficient and it did not require a power plant every couple of blocks. Tesla even had a wireless version of the electricity - however Edison could not think of a way to make profit off of this, and therefore it was not implemented. To name a few of Tesla's inventions; radio, x-ray, radar, light bulb, remote control, electric motor, robotics, laser, and wireless. Many of his inventions were not implemented until later dates, and by people other than him over time who just did some tweaking.
Tesla and Edison went to history as inventors yet both had a different perseption in their work. Today's electricity is based in the invention of Nikola Tesla because alternate current is better than direct current. Edison got the patent on direct current engine wchich he could not make it work properly. Tesla fixed that when he was working for him. That is the last thing he did for him.
He was born at midnight under a lighting storm. Could this cause all that in Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla had his ac motors ready and patented in 1890.
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Nikola Tesla did not discover electricity. Electricity has been studied for thousandths of years. He did came with the alt current generators that supply electricity to the whole world.
Electricity have been studied way before Nikola tesla. He did electricity to AC which lights up the whole planet.
There were people interested in electricity who came with inventions involving the field.
He was just interested!
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Nikola was interested in electric mechanics and inventing innovating ways to improve anything electrical.
Nikola Tesla never made a second tour for electricity. He only did one tour which lasted his whole life.
Nikola Tesla
All his inventions were electricity related. He was born to deal with electricity.