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This is a video transcript of a biography of Nikola Tesla, a famous inventor and engineer who revolutionized the field of electricity with his alternating current motor, his Tesla coil and his visionary ideas. The video covers his life from his birth in Croatia to his death in New York, highlighting his achievements, challenges, values and dreams. The video also mentions his rivalry with Edison and Marconi, his financial difficulties and his eccentricities. The video ends with an announcement of a top 20 list of the most relevant scientists in history.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Nikola Tesla was born in present-day Croatia on July 10, 1856, during a storm.
2. Tesla had a special visual ability that allowed him to see things in images and flashes.
3. Tesla's older brother died when he fell from a horse, and Tesla felt the pressure to live up to his parents' expectations.
4. Tesla studied physics and engineering at the Polytechnic School in Graz, Austria, where he became interested in creating a brushless electric motor.
5. Tesla worked for Edison in New York for six months, but left after a dispute over a reward for improving the arc lamps.
6. Tesla invented the alternating current motor and sold it to George Westinghouse, who used it to power the first hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls.
7. Tesla also invented the resonant coil, or the Tesla coil, which he used to generate high voltage and high frequency currents and to experiment with wireless energy transmission.
8. Tesla had a rival in Guillermo Marconi, who used electromagnetic waves to send messages across the Atlantic using an antenna and some of Tesla's own inventions.
9. Tesla's dream was to send energy wirelessly around the world using the earth as a medium, but he failed to find investors and had to abandon his project in Wardenclyffe.
10. Tesla died on January 7, 1943, at the age of 87, in his hotel room in New York, leaving behind a legacy of inventions, discoveries and values.