Nikola Tesla

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Aug 7
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They say a journalist once asked Albert Einstein what it felt like to be the smartest man on Earth. Einstein reportedly replied,

“I don’t know. You should ask Nikola Tesla.”

▪️On January 7, 1943, in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, one of the world’s greatest minds passed away. Nikola Tesla was 86. He had lived a remarkable life—one devoted entirely to science.

As a child, his future seemed set: he was expected to become a priest.

"That future loomed over me like a black cloud," Tesla later wrote.

But fate intervened. During a near-fatal battle with cholera, Tesla struck a deal with his father:

“During one of the attacks, when everyone thought I was dying, my father rushed in and told me, ‘You’ll get better.’ I still remember how pale he looked as he tried to comfort me with words even he didn’t believe.

‘Maybe I will recover,’ I said, ‘if you let me study engineering instead of theology.’

He answered solemnly, ‘You’ll attend the best technical school in Europe.’

Right then, I knew he meant it. It was as if a heavy weight had lifted from my soul.”

▪️Shortly after, Tesla recovered—thanks to an old woman who brewed him a bean-based herbal remedy—and began his path toward scientific greatness. While attending a lecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Tesla observed the operation of a Gramme machine and began to question the efficiency of direct current motors. When he shared his idea for using alternating current instead, his professor, Jakob Pöschl, publicly ridiculed the concept as impossible.

History would prove him very wrong.

Though most American textbooks highlight Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison as pioneers of electricity, it was Nikola Tesla who turned electricity into a usable force for humanity.

He didn’t just experiment—he delivered systems that worked. Alternating current, induction motors, wireless transmission—all ideas born in Tesla’s mind.

Today, a statue of Tesla stands with his cane atop one of his AC motors, gazing out at Niagara Falls—the site of the first hydroelectric power plant built using his patents. The standard 60 Hz frequency used across the United States to this day? That was Tesla’s doing.

His genius helped bring light to America.

And his story still inspires those who dare to challenge convention.

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