KARTINI

Every April 21 people in indonesia commemorate the kartini day. It is beautiful day for the
woman because we celebrate the birth of great lady R.A. Kartini. Everyone knows who
Kartini is. She is our national heroine and a great lady with the bright idea.

Kartini was born in 1879 April 21 in mayong jepara. Her father was Rama Sosroningrat a
Wedana (assistant of head of regency) in mayong. Her mother, Ma Ngasirah was a girl from
Teluk Awur village in Jepara as the daughter of a noble family, she felt luck because she got
more than the ordinary people got. She got better education than other children. In november
12 1903 she married adipati djoyodiningrat, the head of rembang regency. According to
javanese tradition Kartini had to follow her husband. Then she moved to rembang.

In September 13 1904 she gave a birth to her son. His name was Singgih. But after giving
birth to a son, her condition was getting worse and she finally passed away on september 17
1904 on her 25 years old.

Now Kartini has gone. but her spirit and dream will always be in our heart. Nowadays
Indonesian women progress is influenced by kartini's spirit stated on collection of letter
"habis gelap terbitlah terang" or from the dusk to the dawn.

NIKOLA TESLA
Nikola Tesla was born in the Croatian town of Smiljan (Austrian Empire) on 10 July in 1856
to a priest father. He studied electrical engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz and
later attended the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. Unfortunately his father died
early, and he had to leave the university after completing only one term.

Tesla accepted a job under Tivadar Puskás in a Budapest telegraph company in 1880. He was
later promoted to chief electrician and later engineer for the company. He later moved to
Paris to work for the Continental Edison Company as an engineer.

After moving to New York, United States, Tesla worked for Thomas Alva Edison, but the
two did not get along well. He started working with George Westinghouse in 1885. There, he
devised an electrical distribution system that employed alternating current (AC).

Tesla made public the first successful wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices in
1891.

Probably Tesla’s most important contribution to energy history is the use of alternating
current (AC). The Westinghouse Electric Company was the first to implement this
technology by lighting the World Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It proved to be a
more efficient and effective method compared to the direct current (DC) system of Edison, to
transport electricity in a grid. The technology quickly became the basis for most modern
electricity distribution systems. Besides the AC system, Tesla helped in the development of
generators and turbine design. The earliest demonstration of fluorescent lighting was also his
accomplishment.

Nikola Tesla continued his research work on electricity generation and turbine design in his
later life. Even at 81, he claimed to have completed a “dynamic theory of gravity” –
something which was never published. He died in New York City of a heart thrombus on 7
January 1943. He was 86 years old.