{"id":21822,"date":"2019-07-22T18:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=21822"},"modified":"2019-07-30T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:36:40","slug":"chapter-7-tesla-and-edison-battle-about-electric-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/chapter-7-tesla-and-edison-battle-about-electric-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 7. The Battle for Electric Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you want to look at the questions now, you can click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Genius Mind: A picture of Nikola Tesla. He was an important scientist who discovered AC current, including the AC induction motor, which is used in modern-day Tesla cars.<\/strong>

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Nikola Tesla was another outstanding physicist and scientist.\nHe was \u201cahead of his time\u201d because he saw things that would happen later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know Tesla was one of Thomas Edison\u2019s close\nemployees? In fact, many scientists argue Tesla had better ideas than Thomas\nEdison. How can this be? Let\u2019s dive deeper into Tesla\u2019s past and his\ngroundbreaking inventions. In the end, you can decide for yourself, who had the\nbigger impact on how we use electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia in 1856. Croatia\nis a small Eastern Europe country that borders the Adriatic Sea, which is part\nof the massive Mediterranean Sea. Like Edison, Tesla was intelligent in school\nand questioned everything. He did so well in math tests that teachers accused\nhim of cheating! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla studied Math and Physics at the University of Prague.\nHe worked extremely hard. He studied from 3 am to 11 pm every day. He never\ntook off during the weekend or even on holidays. That\u2019s dedication! In 1884,\nTesla immigrated from Croatia to New York. He was hired as an engineer for\nThomas Edison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edison vs. Tesla<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edison and his employees were extremely impressed with\nTesla\u2019s hard work and what he learned in Croatia. One day, Edison said he would\ngive Tesla $50,000 if he could improve the designs for one of his electric\ngenerators. Tesla immediately went to work. Later, Tesla showed Edison his\nsolution for a new DC generator. Edison didn\u2019t think Tesla would take him\nseriously and made fun of him. It was all a joke to Edison! This made Tesla\nvery upset and he quit working for Edison soon after. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla opened his own company called the Tesla Electric\nCompany. He opened his own laboratory in New York, and created an alternating current motor<\/strong>.\n\u201cAlternating\u201d means taking turns or switching directions. Before now, we have\nbeen discussing direct current<\/strong>\nbecause it flows in one direction. The electrons are pushed by a force called\nvoltage. Now, we are discussing alternating currents which switch directions.\nImportant note: electrons must always be moving to produce an electrical\ncurrent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which one is better, you might ask? Running a city on AC is cheaper than DC. And, it is easier to make devices that use AC. So, power plants create alternating currents instead of Edison\u2019s favorite direct currents. Things that run on batteries use direct current. So, a laptop uses DC power, and charges the battery with AC power. Tesla\u2019s motor uses alternating current in to make the motor turn A ring of magnets called the stator<\/em> creates a magnetic field. The magnets are created by putting electricity through metals in a specific way. This makes the inside spin, which rotates gears that rotate the tires. Magnets created by electricity power the car! See experiment 3 for a demonstration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to look at the questions now, you can click here. Nikola Tesla was another outstanding physicist and scientist. He was \u201cahead of his time\u201d because he saw things that would happen later. Did you know Tesla was one of Thomas Edison\u2019s close employees? In fact, many scientists argue Tesla had better ideas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22713,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions\/22713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}