Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a visionary inventor and engineer whose work fundamentally shaped the modern electrical age. He championed alternating current (AC) over Thomas Edison's direct current (DC), a victory that enabled the efficient long-distance transmission of electricity, making modern power grids possible. He invented the AC induction motor, the Tesla coil (foundational for radio technology), and made early contributions to wireless communication and remote control. His dreams of wireless power transmission and global communication were ahead of their time. While more an engineer than a pure theoretical scientist, his practical implementations of electromagnetic principles were transformative. His legacy lives on every time an appliance is plugged into an AC outlet, and he remains an icon of the eccentric, visionary inventor.