Why every super hero has to die
saving the world? Why every superhero spends his life lonely? Why every
superhero has to face the wrath of others? Is it fair for every superhero to
work only for a cause and never care for applause?
Why Batman had to be born in
tragedies, live in dark and has to return back everytime only with
Why Superman was questioned by
the whole world?
Why Spiderman can never reveal
his identity?
Why Sherlock Holmes is always
immersed in solving crimes without taking credit of even one?
Why Monk has to have his dinner
alone every day?
Very few might have heard of this
name, or even if heard most of them would have neglected it. Yes the name isn’t
catchy unless for the word ‘Tesla coil’ invented by him. And by the way, this
is not the only invention by him.
To give a brief introduction on
who is this man, I would start by calling him what he really was – electrical
engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, inventor and futurist. His main
contribution to this world has been Alternating Current (AC) that is right now
powering your home and has been the lifeline of growth and survival of human
growth.
Born on 10 July, 1856, he started
his career, with immense knowledge in electrical engineering, by working for
Thomas Edison. But soon he had to separate from him when Edison said; “Tesla,
you don't understand our American humor” after Tesla fixed and improvised most
of the Edison’s broken machines and asked for his payment.
He then went on to setup his own
company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, with the help of few of his
financial backers but even that too fell off when his financers dint believe in
his Alternating Current.
Tesla then started a company, the
Tesla Electric Company, with the backing of New York attorney Charles F. Peck
and Alfred S. Brown, the director of Western Union. He then sat, unmoved, to go
on working for his Alternating Current and finally succeeded in constructing
alternating current induction motor. Still, he had to fight a number of battles
to prove the worth of alternating current and the long list of its advantages,
the primary advantage being long distance transmission.
If you guys thought X-Ray was
invented by some nice dude, then the first of its idea was given to the world
by Tesla.
The Radar, the Radio, the
Hydroelectric Power plants, the Cryogenic Engineering, the Transistors, the
Resonant Frequency of Earth, Earthquake machine and many more.
If you are thinking what these
are, then these are the nicest of things given to the world by their inventors.
And another truth is all these are based on either Tesla’s ideas or his
patents.
Unfortunately, when he came up
with these ideas it was either too early for the people to believe in his ideas
then or he just fell short of his financial backers. He was truly a man out of
this world. He imagined all the things entirely in his mind much before the
world could either think of such a thing.
Wireless transmission of energy
was to be his last and best gift to this world but again he fell short of luck,
opportunity, finance, supporters and even life!
With such a huge list of ideas
and long list of patents, anyone can think of Tesla being one of the richest men
on the planet during those times. Is it not?
NO! He was never rich. He was a
Geek!
He never poke his head into
selling his patents or marketing his things and ideas only because he was
always busy improvising his skills and building new and better things. As true
Geeks do.
Sad but true, when he died he was
staying alone a New York hotel room living on milk and talking to an imaginary
pigeon!
Why?
Why do such nice humans and true
superheroes always meet with such a tragic end?
Why being busy and occupied in
their world of improvising this planet is a fault?
Why staying away from fame is
like being cursed?
Why being unselfish has such a
great cost?
Why geeks are never believed at
first and never remembered later?
Nikola Tesla’s birthday which was
four days back, 10th of July, will not go uncelebrated this year,
nor any other year, at least until this wonderful planet is running with the
help of his wonderful ideas and inventions and patents, at least until every
home in this planet is being lit up with the help of his alternating current!
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla – the man who gave the real meaning and
respect to the word GEEK!
You will live on until the AC current keeps on lighting this world…
Vishal…
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