“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian physicist who had made remarkable inventions like AC generators and Tesla coil. He was born to a priest and his father wanted him to be a priest like himself. But Tesla opted to follow his heart which contained scientific ideas to develop new electrical equipments and machines. He was very a talented scientist who used his knowledge to develop electric transmitters and wireless communication systems. Tesla was able to produce artificial lightning. You are going to learn how he began his career as a worker in a telephone exchange and finally emerged as a scientist who made marvelous inventions that no one ever had imagined in their dreams. This book, ‘NIKOLA TESLA: The Galvanic Man and His Electrifying Quotes’, takes you through the roads he walked, his inventions and the wordings he shared with us.
This book is an anthology of 80 quotes from Nikola Tesla and 80 selected facts about Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm. Tesla was 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall and weighed 142 pounds (64 kg), with almost no weight variance from 1888 to about 1926. Tesla’s eyes were gray-blue. Nikola Tesla was fluent in many languages besides his native Serbian; he also spoke English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Hungarian and Latin. Nikola Tesla was good friends with Mark Twain. Tesla’s father Milutin was a Serbian Orthodox priest. Before entering a building Nikola Tesla would circle the block 3 times. Tesla had a terrific sense of humor. Nikola Tesla invented the radio before Guglielmo Marconi, who would receive the Nobel Prize for it. Nikola Tesla lived many years in New York City, and spent his last decade living there in the Hotel New Yorker. He lived in room 3327, a two-room suite on the 33rd floor. On January 7, 1943: Nikola Tesla died penniless and alone in room #3327 of the Hotel New Yorker. After learning of Tesla’s death, the FBI ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all of Tesla’s belongings. It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life. Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
