Tesla’s breakthrough
At the polytechnic school, a physics teacher demonstrated in tesla’s class a new Gramme dynamo that could be used as both a motor and a generator by connecting it to a direct current. As he watched with keen interest, Tesla thought that it would be possible to do away with those inefficient sparking connections known as commutators. His professor was astonished at this and said, “This would be building a perpetual motion machine!” Tesla was obsesed with this idea. He intuitively knew that the solution lay in alternating electric currents. Tesla was working for ythe central Tlephone Exchange in Budapest. He was then 24. One day, the answer came to him as he was just reminded of a beautiful passage from Goethe’s Faust:
The glow retreats, done are the days of toil;
It yonder hastens, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil;
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
Tesla said that as he uttered those words, the idea came to his mind like a flash of lightning and in an instant, the truth was revieled. He then, drew the diagram with a stick on the sand. His invention of the induction motor was a technological advance that would soon change the world.
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