Name: 尼古拉-特斯拉和他令人難以置信的發明。 (Nikola Tesla and his incredible inventions)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:39:18.000Z
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inventor and proponent of the AC current system,

Nikola Tesla was born in the Austrian Empire in 1856

who wanted his son to enter the same profession

but Nikola was only interested in science.

His mother invented labour saving devices

as being the source of his inventiveness.

by the mysterious phenomena of electricity

A trait that he was to keep throughout his life.

His teachers even wrote to Tesla's family

that would hound Tesla in his later years.

and started work at the Budapest telephone exchange

for the Continental Edison Company in Paris.

There he was working on a new innovation.

and soon he found himself heading to New York

After fixing the generators of the SS Oregon

“I see our Parisian has been out all night!”.

that he'd been working on the repairs for SS Oregon

at which point Edison conceded to his colleague:

Tesla left their employment shortly afterwards.

by scribbling across two pages of his diary

that the company was financed by two businessmen.

During 1886 he had to work as a ditch digger

“My high education in various branches of science,