Nikola Tesla, one of the pioneers of modern electrical engineering, and widely recognised as one of the greatest inventors the world has ever seen, would have celebrated his 153rd birthday today.
Search giant Google jumped on the bandwagon of honouring the Serb-American inventor by featuring a special logo, drawn in the shape of the renowned Telsa coil transformer, to mark this anniversary.
Known for several revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Tesla`s inventions include polyphase systems, that let alternating current electricity be transmitted over long distances.
This is now the main way electricity reaches our homes and businesses today, powering our lives, our gadgets, our communications. Another notable fact, Tesla is credited with assisting the Second Industrial Revolution take hold, through his pioneering work.
Tesla unfortunately died in poverty, aged 86. He studied electrical engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, and then moved to Hungary, where he was employed at the National Telephone Company in Budapest. In later years he emigrated to the States, where he began his own business, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, where most of his significant inventions were born.
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