Tesla went to work for Westinghouse and helped him eventually win the battle for electrical power distribution in the US and elsewhere. One of his best inventions was the AC induction motor which he sold to Westinghouse. Some of them were improvements to the telegraph, arc lights, and all manner of electrical machines like generators and motors. AC, Tesla took off on his own and invented a whole stream of electrical things and patented them. After endless squabbles with Edison over the merits of DC vs. He worked for Edison in New York City for a while, but pursued inventions on his own with great success. During the late 1800s, he worked for Thomas Edison’s European telephone company in Budapest and Paris. Tesla was educated in various European universities in mechanical and electrical engineering, physics, and languages. Nikola Tesla was born in the Serbian part of Croatia in 1856. From my days as a ham radio addict in my teens to today where I write books and articles on radio for a living, I firmly believed l owed my livelihood to Marconi.
I read the book only to find that I have had it wrong all these years myself. And one of those failures was his inability to get recognition for inventing radio during his lifetime. Tesla was not only a real success in the electrical fields, but also a terrible failure in many ways. My son-in-law is not a technical or electronics type, but he read the book and was fascinated by Tesla and even amazed at Tesla’s unbelievable inventions. It has a 1981 copyright date on it, but was re-released in 1993. My son-in-law recently gave me a book he found on a sale table called Tesla, Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney.
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