nikola_teslaHappy Birthday Nikola Tesla, an inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer. He was born on 10th of July, 1856 in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today’s Croatia. He was an ethnic Serb, a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen.

Nikola Tesla engaged in reading many works, memorizing complete books, supposedly having a photographic memory. Nikola Tesla is most famous for his several radical contributions in the field of magnetism and electricity in late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1882 he moved to Paris, France, to work as an engineer for the Continental Edison Company, designing improvements to electric equipment. In the same year, Tesla conceived the induction motor and began developing various devices that use rotating magnetic fields for which he received patents in 1888.

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Soon thereafter, his mother had died and he fell ill. In 1886, Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing.

Some of his closest friends were artists. He befriended Century Magazine editor Robert Underwood Johnson, who adapted several Serbian poems of Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj (which Tesla translated). During this time, Tesla was influenced by the Vedic philosophy teachings of the Swami Vivekananda.

When he was eighty-one, Tesla stated he had completed a “dynamic theory of gravity”. He stated that it was “worked out in all details” and that he hoped to soon give it to the world but the theory was never published.

Some of the arguments by great Nikola Tesla are:

There is no thing endowed with life—from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest creature—in all this world that does not sway in its turn. Whenever action is born from force, though it be infinitesimal, the cosmic balance is upset and the universal motion results.

He stated on Einstein’s relativity work as:

magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king … its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists

the relativity theory, by the way, is much older than its present proponents. It was advanced over 200 years ago by my illustrious countryman Ruđer Bošković, the great philosopher, who, not withstanding other and multifold obligations, wrote a thousand volumes of excellent literature on a vast variety of subjects. Bošković dealt with relativity, including the so-called time-space continuum

He also argued that

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view

The genius Nikola Tesla was died on 7 January 1943 because of heart failure alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. He is in our heart and will be forever. What I have said here that is nothing and does not represent him. However I am happy and also feel lucky to get a chance for honoring Nikola Tesla today, his birthday. We owe Tesla a lot in the field of electricity.