Despite a propaganda war against his name and inventions, Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest inventors of all time. He has more than seven hundred patents and inventions that are far superior to those inventions by Thomas Edison (Wikipedia). Our current technological abilities have been shaped more by Tesla than any other individual. By being erased from the Smithsonian and omitted in school textbooks, Tesla has been all but forgotten by the vast majority of society (Wagner).
Nikola Tesla was ironically born at midnight of the 9th of June during a powerful lightning storm in the village of Smiljan, Croatia (Wikipedia). His father was a brilliant cleric in the Serbian Orthodox Church, fluent in several languages. His mother was an illiterate housewife with a photographic memory who frequently invented tools to help her around the house (Cheney).
Tesla became intrigued with engineering at an early age inventing his first motor at the age of five by gluing sixteen June bugs to propellers (Cheney 7).
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