Good
evening (again)!
One more
task for you is to publish a short report about famous inventor in your blog.
Make 5
factual mistakes in your report and come up with 2 questions on the report’s
subject.
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pictures.
Read the
sample report, find and correct mistakes in comments. Answer the questions.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current(AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla didn’t have any experience before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles.
Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs, and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in an ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, his unfinished Eifel Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless phone, one of the first ever exhibited.
Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist". His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance charity projects. He lived most of his life in a series of London, through his retirement. Tesla died on 7 January 1943. His work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measuresnamed the SI unit of magnetic flux density the Tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.
Questions:
1. Why Tesla had a reputation of "mad scientist"?
2. How do you assess the contribution of Nikola Tesla to modern science and life?
