In this presentation, I shared my opinion after reading the book titled as 'The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla'. It contains Interesting Life story of Mr. Nikola Tesla and his hard work, dedication, success he got and the mistakes made by him.

1. PIET – MCA (Sem – 3)

2. Guided by Hemi Dave & Amisha Pathak
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3. About book
 This book contains,
1. The personal info of Mr. Tesla.
2. The hard work & determination shown by Mr. Tesla
throughout his whole life for fulfilling his Dreams.
3. Info about the Conflict between Mr. Tesla(AC Current)
and Mr. Edison(DC Current) and who won it ?
4. Info about all of his Inventions.
5. Some tragic events came in his life & some costly
mistakes made by him.

4. About Author
• Nikola Tesla was born on 10th July
1856, in a small town called ‘Smiljan’
in the Austria-Hungary border
province of modern day Croatian
republic.
• He was born into a poor family
whose father was a priest and his
mother was an illiterate housewife but
very talented and to whom he was
emotionally very close. He had one
elder brother and three sisters.
• He studied electrical engineering at
The Austrian Polytechnic in Graz.

5. Contents
 Tesla’s Vision
 The War of the Currents
1. How its Begin ?
2. Tesla meets Edison
3. Tesla represents his idea to Edison
4. Mr. Edison insults Mr. Tesla
5. The Egg of Columbus
6. Mr. Tesla merges with Westinghouse Electric Co.
7. Edison’s Campaign against AC Current (Tesla & Westinghouse Co.)
8. Fight for Niagara Falls
9. Who won the war ?
10. Conquering the Niagara Falls
 Tesla's Inventions
 The Fall of Tesla
 His Famous Quotes
 My Conclusion

6. Tesla’s Vision
 Nikola Tesla’s vision has changed and made the world
better forever.
 Vision has two different but equally valid interpretations,
→ A Vision can be used as in a vision for Society. Tesla
wrote frequently in the New York Times whereby he
communicated how his inventions and work would
impact on society.
→ A Vision can also be a creative process whereby
complex entities are visualised in your mind.
 Tesla had the ability to see completed visions of his
finished inventions which were inspired by external
stimuli.

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 Tesla’s inventions are so numerous and important to
mankind, for that he has been given the title of “The man
who invented tomorrow”.
 He was a pioneer in electrical science and has patented
many inventions including A.C.(Alternate Current), A.C.
Induction motors, A.C. dynamos etc.
 Nikola Tesla worked on many varied projects. Indeed, A
scientist’s scientist.

8. War of the Currents
Nikola Tesla (AC Current) v/s Thomas Edison (DC Current)

9. How its Begin ?
 When Nikola Tesla is Studying electrical engineering at
the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz.
 He observed that the energy is wasting inside Generator
powered by Direct Current or DC Current, more than its
generating.
 So, he disagree with the idea of DC Current.
 And, start thinking about another option.
 And he got his answer, ‘Alternating Current or AC
Current’.

10. Tesla meets Edison
 Nikola Tesla had start working on idea of conquering the
AC Current and use it as a power source.
 He had a tremendous ability to visualise his inventions
and the complete working model of his invention
including the tiniest details so that when it was
manufactured for the first time it worked just as he
visualized it.
 And, this ability helped Tesla many times.
 Finally, Mr. Tesla was ready with his idea of AC Current.
 But, No one is believing him.
 So, In 1884 he decided to move to America and went to
New York where he joined Edison’s Laboratory.

11. Tesla represents his Idea to Edison
 Nikola Tesla start working in laboratory of Mr. Thomas Edison.
 Where he studied DC Current more closely and observed that the
generator running on DC Current is not Suitable for present
demand of electricity.
 Because DC Current is too heavy in voltage and it transmitted
only around 1 mile(approx. 805 meter) radius of a Power Plant.
 After working for 1 year in Edison’s lab, he represents his idea in
front of Mr. Edison but Mr. Edison refused and said, “AC Current
is Dangerous and Uncontrollable.”
 But, Mr. Tesla is not agree with him.
 So, Mr. Edison gave him a challenge to upgrade one of his DC
Powered Generator.
 And Mr. Edison also said, “If you got succeed I’ll give you
$50,000 as a Bonus.”

12. Mr. Edison insults Mr. Tesla
 Mr. Tesla accepted the challenge and upgraded the Generator.
 And, Came to Edison for his reward of $50,000.
 Mr. Edison said, “It was an American Joke.”
 Mr. Tesla was furious.
 So, he left the company & become unemployed.
 After that, Mr. Tesla worked as ditch digger for $2.00 on
construction sites.
 Once in the lunch break, Mr. Tesla was talking to his
supervisor about the inefficiency of DC based electrical
system.
 After listening to Mr. Tesla, His Supervisor gave him some
Names & their residential addresses who can help him in
fulfilling his vision.

13. The Egg of Columbus
• In April 1887, Mr. Nikola Tesla was
introduced to Alfred S. Brown, director
of Western Union and Charles F. Peck,
a New York attorney, who were sold on
his AC Current System after he
demonstrated a device Mr. Tesla
constructed known as the ‘Egg of
Columbus’.
• It was used to demonstrate and explain
the principles of the rotating magnetic
field model and the ‘Induction Motor’.
• Tesla's Egg of Columbus performed
the feat of Columbus with a copper egg
in a rotating magnetic field.

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 Tesla agreed to split his patents on 50-50 basis in
exchange for funding.
 Mr. Brown provided the funding as per his promise.
 Mr. Tesla started New lab at 89, Liberty Street.
 And, Mr. Brown’s company filed for its 1st patent by the
end of the month.
 After a week, Tesla’s friend Mr. Anthony Szigeti came to
New York and joined in Liberty Lab as an Assistant.

15. Mr. Tesla merges with Westinghouse Electric Co.
 In May 1888, Mr. Tesla got approval for his idea of
‘New System of Alternate Current Motors and
Transformers’ from American Institute of
Electrical Engineers (AIEE) which is today
known as Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) at Columbia University in New
York.
 In July 1888, Mr. Tesla meet Mr. George
Westinghouse, owner of Westinghouse Electric
Co., interested in Mr. Tesla’s AC Current powered
Motor.
 Mr. Tesla accept the offer of Mr. George but Mr.
Tesla said, “I want $25,000 cash, $50,000 in notes
& a royalty of $2.50 per horsepower for each
motor.”
 Mr. George Westinghouse accepted the terms of
Mr. Tesla.
 Mr. Tesla moved to Pittsburgh and stay there for 1
year to finalize the contract with Westinghouse
Co.

16. Edison’s Campaign against AC Current (Tesla &
Westinghouse Co.)
 In 1890, Mr. Thomas Edison started the
campaign “Say No to AC Current”.
 To make it successful Edison and his staff
began electrocuting animals with AC
Current.
 This process Termed as
“Westinghoused” and it was used to
demonstrate that, “AC Current is
Dangerous”.
 In August 1890, The state of New York
convicted William Kemmler for murder of
his mistress and sentenced him to die in
the electric chair powered using AC
Current.
 On 6th August 1890, The Execution was
a total disaster and because of it Mr. Tesla
and Westinghouse suffered a great blow.

17. Fight for Niagara Falls
• Mr. Tesla and Westinghouse co.
submitted the design for a power station,
Which is to be built on Niagara Falls,
Ontario in Canada.
• Mr. Edison also submitted the designs
for it but it got rejected because they all
are based on DC Current and the
production of electricity is far more less
than its demand.
• Therefore, the board of directors of
Edison Electric Co.(Started by Mr.
Edison) decided to remove Mr. Edison
from the Company.
• And, they also decided to change the
name of company from ‘Edison
Electric’ to ‘General Electric’.

18. Who won the war ?
 Designs submitted by Mr. Tesla for power station of Niagara Falls
was Selected.
 It is just a beginning, In 1896, Mr. Tesla & Westinghouse Co. build
that power plant on Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
 It was named as ‘Adams Power Station’ and by building it, Mr.
Tesla defeated Mr. Edison in War of the Currents.
 It is the most precious Moment of his life.
 For Mr. Thomas Edison, it is a lesson and Bitter Defeat he got in
his entire life.
 But this defeat doesn’t stop him, He took it as a Motivation.
 He spent his whole life inventing new things and patented more
than 2000 inventions in his lifetime. It is a Guinness World
Record.

19. Conquering the Niagara Falls
• Niagara Falls was the first site of World’s first
commercial 3 phase A.C. power plant.
• Mr. Tesla visited ‘Adams Power Station’ with George
Westinghouse and Edward Dean Adams (He provided
the finance for this project).
• And, from this power plant they transmitted the electricity
to Buffalo, New York which is 22 miles (approx. 36 km)
away.

20. Tesla’s Inventions
 Use of Alternate or AC Current
 Induction Motor
 Tesla Coils
 X-Ray
 Wireless Telegraph

21. Induction Motor:-

22. Tesla Coils:-

23. X-rays:-

24. Wireless Telegraph:-

25. The Fall of Tesla
 In 1890, Because of lack of Highly qualified engineers
Westinghouse abandoned the idea of Tesla’s Induction
Motor.
 Tesla & Westinghouse renegotiate and Tesla agrees to
remove the royalties clause from their contract.
 This was a Sacrifice that would haunt Tesla for rest of his
life.(This indicates that, he’s suffering from
OCD(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).)
 His Lifetime dream, the ‘Wardenclyffe Tower’ wasn’t be
completed.
 He died on 7th Jan, 1943 at the age of 86 years in New
Yorker Hotel in New York City and when he died he had
nothing.

26. His Famous Quotes
 We all make mistakes, and it is better to make
them before we begin.
 Our Virtues and our failings are inseparable, like
force and matter. When they separate, man is no
more.
 I don’t care that they stole my idea…I care that
they don’t have any of their own.

27. My Conclusion after Reading this
Book