Is Tesla Coil the 1st person to find out about electricity?
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While many believe Benjamin Franklin to be the father of electricity, current findings seem to show otherwise. In 1752, Franklin is said to have performed the famous experiment of flying a kite during a thunderstorm, which led to the discovery that lightning and electricity were somehow related. Modern scientists know this to be something of a tall tale, since being hit by lightning would have been fatal. It's likely that Franklin was actually insulated, away from the path of lightning.
The kite experiment helped Franklin establish a relationship between lightning and electricity, which led to the invention of the lightning rod. Benjamin Franklin went on to observe other phenomena related to electricity, but many believe that he didn't actually discover its true nature.
In 1800, Italian-born physicist Alessandro Volta constructed the voltaic pile, later known as the electric battery, the first device to produce a steady electric current. It was Volta, not Franklin, who discovered that certain chemical reactions could produce electricity. Volta also created the first transmission of electricity by linking positively-charged and negatively-charged connectors and driving an electrical charge, or voltage, through them.
It wasn't until 1831 that electricity became viable for use in technology. English scientist Michael Faraday created the electric dynamo, a crude precursor of modern power generators. This invention opened the door to the new era of electricity. A few decades later, in 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb.
There's no such person named Tesla Coil
The world has known about electricity for 100's of years if not thousands
no Nicola Tesla was simply a visionary of the highest caliber
1. A tesla coil is an object not a person.
2. No. Static electricity has been known about since the ancient greeks. Tesla didn't do his research into it until the late 19th and early 20 century. He is famous for his research that lead to the alternating current power system. (AC)
No. Nikola Tesla came up with one brilliant idea, 3 phase alternating current which he tried to sell to Tom Edison. Edison was not interested, probably because he had sunk a lot of money into DC systems and from then on bad-mouthed alternating current as much as he could. Tesla sold the idea to George Westinghouse.
Tesla spent some time working on wireless telegraphy but standard histories of that technology hardly mention him.
He also invented or developed the Tesla coil, which is an autotransformer capable of producing extremely high voltages.
He then spent the rest of his life claiming he was gunna do this and he was gunna do that. Basically a one trick pony.
No.
No one knows who "invented" electricity. There is evidence that electricity was used as early as 250 BC by gold coin counterfeiters who electroplated other metals so they would look like gold coins. This is just where we begin to find evidence, not when electricity started. It started much earlier.
Obviously much of science throughout history was kept secret because it gave selfish people specific advantages.
The idea of patents, where you could tell people about your discovery and still make money off of it, reduced this "trade secret" ideology and improved scientific communication, but, trade secrets held by people/companies so they have the potential to become rich are still a huge impediment to open scientific communication.
BTW: Tesla eventually proved that Marconi infringed on his patents. Edison too for that matter. The issue with Tesla was that he invented a lot great things but the only thing that he marketed well was AC electricity, not specifically 3 phase.
Tesla didn't invent electricty-the Tesla Coil is only one of his inventions. Tesla a one trick pony? Who invented the radio? Who discovered single-electrode X-ray tube ( 8 years before Röntgen? Who invented the vacuum tube amplifier? Who...
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