CHRONICLE

EVIDENCE “GA2-240202501-AA1-EV03

BY:

JUAN DAVID VILLALBA LOPEZ

National Learning Service (SENA)

software analysis and development (ADSO)

city:

Ibague Tolima

2023
 Evidence GA2-240202501-AA1-EV03: chronicle.

Select an iconic character with an important career in the world, according to their professional profile
(Ex: In fashion, an iconic character is Agatha Ruiz), and search the Internet for information about him
(her). Based on the selected character, make a written chronicle with the most important events and the
most relevant situations in the character's professional career.

BRIEF CHRONICLE ABOUT NIKOLA TESLA

 NIKOLA TESLA
Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, a Serbian village in the Austrian Empire (currently known as
Croatia) and dedicated his life to scientific research. He was a genius considered the founder of
modern technology and father of electrical civilization. Thanks to him, there is the alternating current
that is used today in all homes, the multi-phase induction motor, vertical take-off airplanes, low-
consumption lamps, alternative energies, or the wireless transmission of electricity. He was a pioneer
in robotics and predicted the Internet and wireless devices that would fit in a pocket.

But his success was not recognized until long after his death. He traveled to the New York of the first
skyscrapers to work with the person he admired, Thomas Edison, but it was a frustrated attempt when
he became his archenemy, since both are the protagonists of one of the best-known historical rivalries
in science. Edison's defense of direct current and Tesla's defense of alternating current led the inventor
of the light bulb to start a smear campaign against Tesla in the so-called "War of the Currents."

And he was not the only scientist who tried to overshadow him. Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Prize
winner for the invention of radio, appropriated up to seventeen patents owned by Tesla, who had
already been testing the emission and reception of radio signals for several years. In 1943, the US
Supreme Court recognized that Marconi had pirated his invention and returned the rights to Tesla. He
died without knowing it, alone and destined to be forgotten.

This scientific figure mistreated by history was later vindicated by countercultural movements that
discovered the entire legacy of a man who opposed what was established and who lived in a world
that was not prepared for his inventions. "He wanted electricity to be free and universal, he defended
alternative energies, but that was not tolerated by capitalist companies that did not want it to be
freely available," says María Santoyo. «He was a man ahead of his time. "A key figure unjustly
forgotten."

Thanks to Nikola Tesla we have the most important thing for technological machinery to advance...
ALTERNATE ENERGY