Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Tesla

Tesla


Nicola Tesla is one of my personal hero's his dedication to the improvement of mankind through invention and his humbleness in this act is summed in the first few lines of his biography "My Inventions"


"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. Speaking for myself, I have already had more than my full measure of this exquisite enjoyment, so much that for many years my life was little short of continuous rapture. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts." -Nicola Tesla

He invent the modern age including remote control, modern electricity,radio,and many more it is even rumored he invented wireless electricity and a death ray and these were confiscated and destroyed by the military.



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