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When was electricity a new technology?
19th century
How did people get energy before electricity?
from coal, gas and steam power
The name of the author is
Vicky Baez
Tesla's inventions
coal, x-ray machines, a plant for Niagara falls
Vicky Baez was born in
1971, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nikola Tesla was born in
1856, Croatia
Tesla's job after high school
electrician
When did people forget about Tesla?
When he died
What happened to Tesla in 1884?
Thomas Edison hired Tesla as
an electrical engineer
The letter said
I know two great men, and you are one of them, the other is this young man.
Who paid $2,000 to tesla?
George Westinghouse
Difference in Tesla's and Edison
Tesla imagined how things worked and Edison tried everything first
What happened in 1885?
Tesla and Edison had a big argument
What did Edison do to Tesla?
They had an arrangement to Tesla improve Edison's motors and generators so he will be paid, but Edison did not fulfill it.
Whant happened in 1990?
People started to write about Tesla and now he is more known
What happenedin 1887?
Tesla started his own company.
An Edison's rival
George Westinghouse
Tesla and Edison war was named
War of the currents
Why was Tesla motor named that way?
Because the first car used a Tesla's motor for an electric car