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Nikola Tesla

- - - - Dad
        
        Hypersensitive, tried to follow in father's footsteps of a sergeant, quit the military academy because of his hypersensitivity
        
        Wrote poetry, was politically active, entered priesthood
        
        Was a humorous person; Nikola Tesla inherited this trait as well
        
        Influenced Tesla's personality, Nikola Tesla was a funny person
      - Mom
        
        Had many duties in childhood because her mother was falling blind, as the eldest of 8
        
        Never learned to read because of all her responsibilities
        
        Was extremely hard working
        
        Nikola was influenced by her
    - - He had three older siblings; Dane, Angelina, and Milka
        
        In 1963, Dane died after he got thrown off a horse
        
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      - He had one younger sibling; Marica
    - - Made a smooth waterwheel; later would become Tesla's innovative bladeless turbines
      - Made a cornstalk pop gun; used principles in which he would later use for particle beam weapons
    - - At that time, he had many experiences; many times he nearly died
        
        Fell once into a boiling milk kettle filled with just harvested milk
        
        Nearly drowned by swimming under a raft
      - Was interested in electricity from the very beginning
      - He nearly died when an epidemic of cholera rushed through the town; was bedridden for 9 months
  - - - Studied other languages as wel
        
        He learned 9 languages
    - - Studied for 20+ hours a day
      - He passed the first year with all A+'s
      - At the same time he was making inventions
        
        His professor humiliated him when he said this part wasn't necessary, spent 4 years proving him wrong
        
        Mechanical Airplane
    - - Because of his study habits
      - Because of his close relationship to the facuilty
    - - Staff sent a message saying it could be damaging to his health
      - Created a rift between father and son
  - - - Met by Puskas, his teacher's brother.
        
        Started talking about strategies to approach Batchelor
        
        Batchelor was Edison's most trusted associate
      - From advice of Ferenc Puskas
      - He was making an Alternating Current invention
        
        He made it in secret, and once it worked he presented it to the mayor of a town, who tried to get people interested but nobody responded
        
        Nobody was interested, so Batchelor pressured him to go to America to redesign Edison machines
    - - First impression was that it's uncivillized
      - Started working with Edison by recommendation of Batchelor
        
        Edison promised him 50k to redesign the DC
        
        Once he finished the project, Edison said the 50k was a joke
        
        Tesla was disheartened and left.
        
        He completed the project
  - - - He was focused on the AC motor
        
        The other men didn't like the thought of that motor
      - There were other men in the business, they forced him out
        
        1886-1887, he was bankrupt and forced to live as a ditchdigger
  - - - At the time, Westinghouse was one of the biggest electrical producers.
      - He offered tens of thousands of cash to utilize his technology
    - - He killed an elephant, and also had prisoners killed by electric chair for experimentation
        
        It was an AC system that was used to kill the person
        
        Tensions grew between Westinghouse and Tesla, because backlash came because of the AC system stuff
  - - - He began to work on many new inventions
        
        High Frequency Apparatus
        
        Wireless Transmission
        
        Theories on relationship between electromagnetism and light
  - - - "The people were spellbound"
- - - - He was persistent, and still went back.
        
        Shows how much he values his education
- - - - Tesla was born in Croatia, and growing up his family was poor.
        
        He also was bankrupt in his life as well
        
        This shows that people with great minds don't have to come from great backgrounds
      - He had a strong mind, regardless of his childhood education, and sickness.
  - - - He created many new innovations