Nikola Tesla - remarkable genius

Nikola Tesla (Serbian ?????? ?????, July 10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire - January 7, 1943, New York) 

The name Nikola Tesla is famous all over the world. This extraordinary inventor had a remarkable life and few realize how he influences our times today.

The biography of the famous physicist, electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla can serve as an illustrative example of the fact that genius is not automatically associated with wealth and happiness in life. He was not good at monetizing his groundbreaking inventions, he got into debt and sometimes he trusted the wrong people, including Thomas Alva Edison, a proponent of direct current, who later devoted a large part of his life to ridiculing and discrediting Tesla's ideas and discoveries.

When a boy was born in a small Croatian village in 1856, a storm raged in the sky. The midwife claimed it was a bad omen, but little did she know that she had just helped give birth to the "lightning lord" who would usher in the electrification of the world and the birth of mass communication.

Although Tesla was a very prolific inventor, he did not have much entrepreneurial ability or ambition, and often went into debt for his experiments and projects. He also had trouble getting his patents recognized, running into conflicts with other inventors and entrepreneurs, notably Edison and Marconi.

Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors and scientists in history, but at the same time he was a very modest person who dedicated his work first to the well-being of mankind and only then to scientific progress.
When he became famous, a young journalist asked him how it was possible that he, the great inventor, had no monument when others of far less merit were being erected in the wide world. Tesla replied that it was not true, because he had the most monuments. When a surprised journalist asked him where these monuments of his were located, Tesla replied: “...Each pole of a high voltage transmission line is one of the monuments of my work. Now count them!”

Significant is also that from early youth he had to struggle with psychic hypersensitivity and had to learn to control his exceptionally sensitive psychic constitution.

Here one of his quotes:

"What we need most at present is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and societies throughout the world...Peace can reign only as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and the unification of races, and we are still very far from this blissful realization." Nikola Tesla