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'''[[wikipedia:Nikola Tesla|Nikola Tesla]]''' (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) was of unusual intellectual brilliance. The Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer had a general mental capability that could reason, plan, and solve problems in his head. He could think abstractly and comprehend ideas without putting pen to paper. His patents (over 225 in the United States) and theoretical work still form the basis for modern alternating current electric power systems (including the polyphase system power distribution system). Tesla helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla is regarded as one of the most important inventors in history. He is also well known for his contributions to the science of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His legacy can be seen across [[wikipedia:Modern world|modern civilization]].
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In his early years, he enjoyed widespread fame; he was widely recognized in high society and in culture, and a significant amount of professional material of the publishing industries focuses on Tesla's announcements. He was highly regarded in the [[wikipedia:history of science and technology|annals of history]]. In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist of his era. After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after Westinghouse being the victor in the "War of Currents" using Tesla's patents, he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer. Tesla's name became a byword for innovation and practical achievement.His name was one of the most recognizable in the world, a ''magician'' who conjured up technical feats. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. He later became credited as being the inventor of the radio. Tesla's vision was to find a means to provide humanity the means for [[wikipedia:Free energy (disambiguation)|unlimited energy]]. He gave his life to make real these plans, while others made fortunes with his [[wikipedia:invention|invention]]s.
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In his later years, Tesla was regarded as a ''[[wikipedia:mad scientist|mad scientist]]''. In his later years, Tesla became noted for making "bizarre" and misunderstood claims about possible scientific developments.At the end of his life, Tesla was mocked by his contemporaries and he wound up destitute and [[wikipedia:Historical revisionism (political)|forgotten]]. Never putting a large focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86. Tesla was ahead of his time; many of Tesla's ideas and concepts are just only recently coming to fruition.
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Tesla's legacy can be seen across modern civilization wherever electricity is used. Aside from his work on electromagnetism and engineering, Tesla is said to have contributed in varying degrees to the fields of robotics, ballistics, computer science, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and New Age occultism. Many contemporary admirers of Tesla have deemed him the man who invented the twentieth century.
==Relations, friendships, and personal views==
In his middle life, Nikola Tesla became very close friends with [[wikipedia:Samuel Clemens|Mark Twain]]. They spent a lot of time together in his lab and elsewhere. He remained bitter in the aftermath of his incident with Edison. The day after Edison died the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Tesla who was quoted as saying, "He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene" and that, "His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense." As Edison was a very old man, he went as far as to say that looking back, his biggest mistake he had made was never respecting Tesla or his work. This did little for their almost non-existent relationship.
Tesla believed that war could not be avoided until the cause for its recurrence was removed, but was opposed to [[wikipedia:war|wars]] in general. He had inherited a hatred of war from his parents and homeland, and sought to end warfare systematically by devising protective measures that would prevent wars. He found exceptions and some justifiable situations where conflict was necessary. He envisioned wars of machines, not of humans, and of more terrible weapons in the future. He sought to reduce distance, such as in communication for better understanding, transportation, and transmission of energy, as a means to ensure friendly international relations. A system for "Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media" known as ''[[teleforce]]'' was reportedly developed later in his life. Teleforce was supposed to have been a type of defensive particle-beam weapon.
Like many of his era he developped a fondness for eugenics. The earliest clear instances of this are after his obsessive-compulsive disorder had become pronounced. In a curious 1926 interview he indicated humanity's future would be run by "Queen Bee" like women who'd mate selectively.[http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/women.htm]. By February of 1935 he had a pro-eugenics article in ''Liberty'' which was edited by a friend named G. S. Viereck. In a 1937 interview near the end of his life he indicated that "A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."[http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html] Although Tesla was noted as an [[wikipedia:eccentricity (behavior)|eccentric]] so some of these ideas are a little hard to place in any eugenicist school of thought.
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