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Nikola Tesla: "The creator of the twentieth century"

In our society the development and use of products or electronic devices is increasingly common and necessary to establish trade relations, facilitate communication and provide greater comfort to our lives. Nowadays it is hard to realize an independent society without electricity, because most of industrial processes and human behavior involves the consumption of energy; individual activities more common as turning on your computer, take a warm bath, turn on a light, turn on the car, take an elevator, moving staircases and buy supermarket products. All these individual actions added to and expanded across the globe contribute to an increase in consumption and electricity demand.

Well, what is the period of history and the thinkers who revolutionized the world in the field of electronics? Some of most influential researchers were Nikola Tesla, a Croatian, and Thomas Edson. To understand how the society matrix machine works, we must learn about its origin, then, a bit of history.

Nicolau Tesla (Никола Тесла) was born in July 10, 1856, in Similian, current Serbian. He was an electric engineer and an important researcher.

Inventions and theories: Tesla, being a man ahead of his time had already envisioned a world simpler and more sustainable, with solutions and ideas for greater energy efficiency. He built and developed theories about Electromagnetic field. Among his inventions and patenting, we can list:

· Transmission of electric power by alternating current system.

· Cold lamps

· X-Rays

· Radio waves

· Wireless technology devised.

· Remote control

· Generator of infinite power

Altogether, he recorded more than 700 patents. His vision included exploration of solar energy and the power of the sea, predicting interplanetary communications and satellites.

If Nikola Tesla had not researched these theories, perhaps you would not be reading this text right now on the computer and, further, any electrical or electronic equipment would exist.

By observing the consequences generated by the Tesla works is clear that his work was one of the most important and revolutionary of the twentieth century. A thinker ahead of his time it was not understood and suffered prejudice due to the magnitude of his ideas.

Our way of living nowadays wouldn’t be possible without Nikola Tesla. So those interested is a tip: watch the documentary below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BFwIlqYHY