Inspiration

The Original Mad Scientist

Tesla Electric Corp. draws its zeal for innovation and quality from the genius and visionary inventor, Nikola Tesla. Tesla prided himself not only as a theorist, but as empiricist that was able to bring to life the awesome ideas that would occur to him. We at Tesla Electric Corp. model all of our work after the example of Nikola Tesla, whose theories, inventions and ideas have stood the test of time and progress.

Nikola Tesla was born in the Former Yugoslavia in 1856, in what is now Croatia. From a very young age, Tesla had it in his heart to explore science, mathematics and engineering. It was in his hometown as a youth that Tesla began to experience the visions that would both serve and haunt him throughout the entirety of his life. Tesla described that he would enter into states where he would experience visions of images and scenes so intensely that he often could not distinguish what was merely in his mind from reality.

Tesla would go on to study Mechanical and Electrical engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic School at Graz. It was in Graz that Tesla became acquainted with direct current (DC) motor and generator equipment. Tesla immediately connected with a feeling that he could improve upon the technology. It would not be until several years later when Tesla was in Budapest that he would receive the fatefull vision of 3-phase, alternating current (AC) power that he would develop into the standard of electrical power that we enjoy the benefits of to this day. The logo of Tesla Electric Corp. is based on the fundamental "Delta-Star" configurations for 3-phase AC power, as developed by Nikola Tesla.

Upon receiving such a radical vision into what would be the future of modern civilization, Tesla immediately travelled to New York City to speak with Thomas Edison in the hopes of working with the already well-established American inventor. The relationship between the two great inventors quickly became one of opposition and competition when Edison refused to acknowledge the benefits of Tesla's system in favor of preserving his own investments.

Tesla would go on to establish 3-phase power as the basis for electrifying the earth by such feats as energizing the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and, most notably, establishing the hydro-electric generation plant at Niagara Falls. Later in his career, Tesla would go on to conduct research and create theories and inventions that would be the precursors of wireless telecommunications, radio communications, fiber-optics, lasers, and many other high-level physics phenomena that have yet to come to mainstream fruition. It goes without saying that without Nikola Tesla, life as we know it on this earth would not be possible.