Nikola Tesla, The Genius Of Electricity

On July 10, 1856, Nikola Tesla was born in present-day Croatia, a man who dedicated his life to
solving the mysteries of electricity and devising a way to make this phenomenon make people's lives
easier. During his student days he began to develop the goal that would accompany him forever: to
devise a way in which free energy could reach the entire world. In 1881 he traveled to Vienna, where
he worked at the National Telephone Company. Eventually, Tesla moved to Paris, where he found
work at the Edison Company. From the French capital he traveled to New York in 1884 – the same
year in which the Statue of Liberty also arrived from Paris. Once in the city, Tesla went directly to the
offices of the man who would definitively influence his life: Thomas Alva Edison. A letter of
recommendation from Charles Batchelor, his last boss in Europe, was addressed to him, which read:
"I know two great men, and you are one of them. The other is the young bearer of this letter." After
reading the letter, Edison hired him that same day. But their relationship was far from placid. There
were differences between the two that increased with the passage of time. These differences were
reflected in the way they approached and saw the results of their work. While Edison was the first
introducer and a strong defender of direct current, Tesla was convinced that alternating current was
a better solution – current that we continue to use in our homes more than one hundred and fifty
years later. This dispute is known as "the war of the currents." Tesla is considered by many to be the
best inventor of the 20th century. His figure, somewhat mistreated by history, was later vindicated
by countercultural movements that discovered the legacy of a man who opposed established norms
and who lived in a world that was not yet ready for his inventions. From the "death ray", a weapon
capable of firing beams of particles, to the "teslascope", an invention that would allow
communication with beings from other galaxies, since Tesla was convinced of the existence of
intelligent beings in other dimensions...

Nikola Tesla died alone on January 7, 1943, in a hotel room in New York, at the age of 86, from a
myocardial infarction. His funeral, which was held in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, was
attended by more than 2,000 people who mourned the loss of a true genius. The United States
government, once Nikola Tesla was buried, intervened in his office and seized all the documents that
contained his studies and research, however, some could not be understood or deciphered since
Tesla kept most of his ideas in his mind. Years later, Nikola Tesla's family, through the Yugoslav
embassy, managed to recover part of the seized material. Today, the life and work of Nikola Tesla
are made known in the museum that bears his name in Belgrade. A curious and very interesting
place where you can better understand the importance of one of the most important inventors in
history.