Nikola Tesla
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Few people recognize his name today, and even among those who do, the
words are likly to summon up the image of a crackpot rather than
an authentic scientist. was possibly the greatest inventor the
world has ever known. He was, without doubt, a genius who is not only credited
with many devices we ....
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.... great ideas in
his head. He first found employment with a young Thomas Edison in New Jersey,
but the two inventors, were far apart in background and methods. But, because of
there differences, Tesla soon left the employment of Edison, and in May 1885,
George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh,
bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period,
during which Tesla invented but lost his rights to many inventions, he
established his ....
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