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Nikola Tesla
Inventor
Born:
Jul 10
,
1856
Died:
Jan 7
,
1943
Every
Man
Me
Nature
Science
Will
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
Fire
Power
First
Flame
Speed
Increasing
Civilisation
Blaze
Feeble
Spread
May
Mighty
Spark
Then
Next
Flickering
Ever
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
Nikola Tesla
Nature
Knowledge
Science
Light
Added
Our
Vastly
True
Instruments
True Nature
Revealed
Provided
Precision
Us
Electrical
Thereby
Appliances
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
Nikola Tesla
Nature
Will
Wave
Seems
Tide
Industry
Motion
Branches
Currents
Sway
Electric
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Nikola Tesla
Work
World
Mind
Thought
Live
Admired
Shadows
Only
Gives
Inventor
Ideal
Were
Artists
Which
Creations
Works
Palpable
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
Nikola Tesla
Struggle
Water
Will
Power
Every
Rather
Cheap
Supply
Long-Distance
Development
Ideal
Along
Household
Material
Lines
Existence
Than
Being
Burning
Fuel
Should
Transmission
Dispense
Utilization
Universal
Necessity
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Nikola Tesla
Immediately
Promising
Various
Investigation
Perhaps
Most
Dealing
Branches
Currents
Interesting
Electrical
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
Nikola Tesla
Me
Fate
Long
First
Before
Telephone
Worst
Drawing
Secured
Hated
Employment
Sought
Very
Chief
Irony
Fortunately
Electrician
Company
Position
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