Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was born to a Serbian family in the village of Smiljan, Croatia. A brilliant child, when he was only 12 years old and saw a lithograph of Niagara Falls, he declared that one day he would put a wheel under it and “power the world.” Working with George Westinghouse, Tesla made the use of alternating electrical current a practical and efficient system for delivering power. The power plants of Niagara Falls were based on his inventions. The first of these new plants began generating energy in 1895, and his technology is still at work today. Tesla was credited with hundreds of inventions in his lifetime, but it was his work on electricity that harnessed the force of Niagara Falls and forever changed the way we live.

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