His name was Tesla
But it's not the car brand you know.
"Tesla" comes from a person's name,
This man is an American billionaire, the founder of "Tesla",
Elon Musk, known as the "Genius of the Century", is the idol that Elon Musk most worships.
His full name is Nikola Tesla,
It was a contemporary of Edison,
But he was a cattle man who was even more powerful than Edison.
In 1884, the household name Edison received a letter from his old friend Charles Barcello,
Recommend to him a Serbian named "Tesla".
Facing the tall, thin, bearded Tesla in front of him,
Edison was not optimistic, and only gave him a weekly salary of $18.
At the time, a recent college graduate, $24 a week was a bit low.
However, Tesla had to agree,
Because there is no way not to agree.
In order to make up the money for the trip to New York,
He ran out of money,
He desperately needed the job to settle his daily rent and meal bill.
But what Edison did not expect was that
This young man who has nothing,
After a few years it upended him.
Edison could have underestimated Tesla, but genius could not be buried.
Once, the Edison team encountered a problem in designing a DC motor.
In a situation where everyone is helpless,
Tesla stepped forward and said, "I'll try!".
Edison was angry when he heard this, and made a bet with him: if you solve this puzzle: reward you with 50,000 yuan!
If you can't figure it out, get out of here!
Tesla agreed,
And after a while, the problem was solved, and all the colleagues were stunned.
When it was time to reward, Edison changed his mind and jokingly said: "Haha, brother, give you a joke, you are serious, besides, brother take out the money in his pocket, it is not enough for 50,000 yuan, another day please eat barbecue?" "It's not easy, Tesla can also understand: 50,000 yuan bonus is not needed, give me a salary increase, right?
18 yuan a week is too little, not enough to eat, you see 25 yuan like?
Unexpectedly, Edison still played haha and coped with the past.
Angry, Tesla picked a pick on the spot: talking does not count, labor and management are not done!
After leaving Edison, Tesla focused on the invention, promotion and application of alternating current systems.
Through a series of inventions, especially the abandonment of patent rights, not only makes power generation more efficient, transmission loss less, facility investment lower, electricity prices are cheaper, so that ordinary people can afford it.
Yet this touched Edison's interests.
You know, Edison's General Electric Company made money by promoting direct current.
Edison himself also owns a patent for the invention of direct current,
At this point, Edison and Tesla have formed a bond,
Edison publicly slandered the use of alternating current as unsafe on various occasions,
And personally took reporters to various cities to do "experiments",
Use electricity to kill cats, dogs, horse farts and other animals to splash dirty water on AC.
He even bribed him in a big way.
Legislation to execute death row inmates using alternating current has indeed had a certain effect in the short term by reinforcing people's bad impressions of alternating current. However, in practice, ALTERNA is convenient for long-distance transportation and reduces the loss in the transmission process, and the advantages are obvious. Good things can not be hidden, alternating current eventually flourished in the world, Tesla took advantage of this war to become famous, Edison General Electric Company was renamed General Electric Company.
Know the difference between talent and genius?
Talents are better than the gradual improvement in a specific mode, and their main role is to make the inventions of some predecessors more efficient, more perfect, and more perfect through their own inventions.
Geniuses are better at reverse thinking, like to break the convention, with completely different ideas, models, ways, subvert people's inherent cognition, so as to create something unprecedented.
It is clear that Tesla belongs to the latter.
Ordinary people, have good ideas or ideas, first take small notes down, and then sort out, deduce,
Finally, let's try to verify,
It may take place in countless adjustments before it can take shape.
Tesla, however, was different, he was similar to today's supercomputers,
On the basis of mastering a lot of knowledge and repeated thinking, the ideas, modeling, and experiments are formed in the brain at once.
Directly out physical or experimental results.
He holds no less than 700 patents for inventions, and in addition to scientists, he is a poet, philosopher, music connoisseur, linguist, and is fluent in Chinese languages: Serbian, English, Czech, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Latin.
Do you know what areas of his research are covered?
Alternating current systems, radio systems, wireless power transmission, ball lightning, turbines, amplification transmitters, particle beam weapons, X-ray equipment, electrical energy instrumentation, missile science, remote sensing technology, aircraft, cosmic rays, radar systems, robots.
He created many world firsts, and some claim to have done statistics, and at least 11 Nobel laureates in physics "plagiarized" his ideas, which originally belonged to Tesla.
He had won the Nobel Prize in Physics because he wanted to share it with Edison, shame on being with each other, and in the end, they didn't take it.
He single-handedly singled out the "Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station"; from the overall design of the power station to the improvement of the alternator and even the subvoltage transmission system of alternating current, he was alone.
More than 120 years have passed, and the hydropower station is still in normal use, and it is still in good use!
Many people became millions, tens of millions, or even billionaires because of his patents, but he died in a new York hotel and never married.
His conception of the universe, far beyond the understanding of contemporaries, especially the study of general relativity, which Einstein himself could not understand at the time, was partially proved 100 years later.
Many of his research on man-made earthquakes, saucer-shaped vehicles, air transmission, geothermal utilization, and seawater power generation are still core secrets of the U.S. military, and scientists have not yet fully understood them.
Tesla is such a "god".
Some people call him and Da Vinci two "prodigies", and the world has only produced one in 500 years.
So that the descendants of Elon Musk, such a genius junior, also worship him and throw themselves to the ground.
You and I mortals may not be able to do such a great man in this life.
But at all times, we should have a respect for scientists; Because they are the ones who have made us now, and the future of mankind. A tribute to every scientist.