About Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla - The Genius Inventor
Nikola Tesla was one of the most important Inventors of the 20th Century with over 700 patents world wide to his name. He was born on midnight of July 9, 1856 in today's Croatia as son of a Serbian orthodox priest. He studied physics in Graz and Prague and worked in Budapest, Paris and Germany as an electric engineer before he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he joined Thomas A. Edison as an assistant. Due to differences of opinion and because Edison did not keep a promise to compensate him for achieving a tedious task, he left and started his own company and performed wide research in the field of alternating current, high voltage applications, magnetism, wireless power transmission and broadcasting.
He became famous for his development of the alternating current system which was introduced at the Chicago World Exhibition and first implemented at the Niagra Falls by George Westinghouse and which became the standard for electric power generation throughout the world. In the late 19th century, he was celebrated by the press as the most genius inventor - "the man who invented the 20th century" - and he was associated with famous, rich and influential people. He was gaining financial support from J.P. Morgan, which allowed him to take up research in the fields of resonance phenomena and to start developing a system for the transmission of electric signals of various frequency and strength over far distances.
Nikola Tesla was convinced that he could find a way to harness energy by tapping into the Ether, which he perceived as an abundant source of free electric potential permeating the whole cosmos. His plan was to wirelessly transmit this energy from a broadcast tower to any location on the planet in order to serve humanity. This intention however he concealed from Morgan and instead "sold" him the idea of a lucrative investment into radio broadcasting in order to have him fund Wardenclyffe tower on Long Island. However, 
when Morgan found out about Teslas' true intention, he was put off by the idea of giving something away for free. He had vested interests in the energy business and copper mining and therefore he'd rather see the entire planet enmeshed with poles and wires and have the electricity so delivered metered. As a consequence he withdrew from financing project Wardenclyffe and it never reached completion.
After Nikola Teslas' death in 1942, his vast legacy of research documentation was seized by the FBI and he got into oblivion due to an orchestrated campaign by certain circles to keep his findings hidden from the public. Nevertheless, a great number of alternative researchers have started out on the quest for a better and cleaner energy future and Nikola Tesla once again gains the state of the celebrated genius and inspirational source of an arising new energy paradigm.
