The one and only Wizard

Not many know about the man behind almost everything you see today. 💡

Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox church and his mother managed the family’s farm.

He studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague.

In 1882, he came up with the idea for a brushless AC motor and soon immigrated to the United States to connect with great minds.

He initially worked for Thomas Edison but left after a few months due to problems over his pay and differing ideologies —Edison supported direct current (DC), while Tesla believed in the superiority of alternating current (AC) systems.

In the 1890s Tesla invented electric oscillators, meters, improved lights and the high-voltage transformer known as the Tesla coil. in 1896, Tesla's system was used at Niagara Falls in the world's first large hydroelectric plant. His work with radio-frequency waves laid the foundation for today's radio.

Tesla was Thomas Edison's rival at the end of the 19th century, in fact he was more popular than Edison himself during the 1890's. At his zenith, he had a relation with poets, scientists, industrialists.

Tesla lived his last decades in a New York hotel, working on new inventions even as his energy and mental health faded. All his inventions brought him worldwide fame, but not fortune. Nearly penniless, Tesla died in his room on January 7, 1943.

The AC system he promoted, and improved remains the global standard for power transmission. The world honored him, after his death, by naming the unit of magnetic field as Tesla.

The value of resilience and the fact that success is not measured by financial gain, but rather by the difference one makes to the world can be clearly invoked from his story.