尼古拉·特斯拉

NikolaTesla，whowasatrainedelectrical and mechanical engineer， wasone of the weighty inventors of the 20th century.

Eventually holding over 7OO patents， Tesla worked inanumberoffields，including electricity， robotics，radar， and wireless transmissionof energy.

Tesla’s discoveries laid the groundwork for many of the technological advances of the 20th century.

Tesla was born in Smiljan，Croatia. He owed his strong desire for invention to his mother，an inventivehomemakerwho created appliances such as a mechanical eggbeater to help with the home and farm.

Tesla studied at the University of Prague， where hestudied mechanical and electrical engineering.

In 1882，24-year- old Tesla was working forthe Central Telephone Exchange in Budapest when the idea for a rotating magnetic field flashedthroughhismind.

Teslawasdetermined toturnhisideainto realitybut he was unable to find support for it inBudapest;thus，Tesla moved to NewYork in 1884and introducedhimselfto ThomasEdison throughaletterof recommendation.

尼古拉·特斯拉是一位訓練有素的機電工程師，也是20世紀最重要的發明家之一。

特斯拉一生擁有超過700項專利，其工作涉及多個領域，包括電力、機器人、雷達和無線能量傳輸。

特斯拉的發現為20世紀的許多技術的發展奠定了基礎。

特斯拉出生在克羅地亞的史密里安。他對發明的強烈渴望歸功于他的母親。他的母親是一位富有創造力的家庭主婦，她發明了很多家用電器來幫助打理家務和農場，比如打蛋器。

特斯拉在布拉格大學讀書，學習機械和電氣工程。

1882年，24歲的特斯拉在布達佩斯中央電話局工作時，腦子里突然閃過一個關于旋轉磁場的想法。

特斯拉決心把他的想法變成現實，但他在布達佩斯找不到支持他做這件事的人；因此，特斯拉于1884年搬到了紐約，通過一封推薦信向托馬斯·愛迪生介紹了自己。

Edison hired Tesla at fourteen dollars per week plus a $＼$ 50，000$ bonus if Tesla could improve Edison's electric lighting system.

Although Tesla and Edison respected one another，TeslachallengedEdison's claim that current could only flow in one direction. Tesla claimed that energy could change direction.

In 1888，Tesla quit working for Thomas Edison and went to work for Westinghouse so that he could develop the alternating current system.

愛迪生以每周14美元的工資雇用了特斯拉，如果特斯拉能改進愛迪生的電力照明系統的話，他還可以得到5萬美元的獎金。

盡管特斯拉和愛迪生彼此尊重，但特斯拉對愛迪生關于電流只能單向流動的觀點提出了質疑。特斯拉聲稱，能量可以改變電流的流動方向。

1888年，特斯拉辭去了為托馬斯·愛迪生服務的工作，轉到西屋電氣工作，以便開發交流電系統。

On January 7，1943，Tesla died at the age of86inhisbedattheHotelNewYorker.

Tesla，who had never married，had spent his life creating， inventing，and discovering.

1943年1月7日，特斯拉在紐約客酒店的床上去世，享年86歲。

特斯拉終身未婚，他用一生進行創造、發明與發現。