They were all hallucinations that would happen often. He soon got over the weird stuff.
When Tesla was older, he saw a demonstration of a "gromadynamo".
2"Tesla visualized a rotating magnetic field and made plans for a induction motor applying the concept. This electric motor was the first step toward the successful application of alternating current. Tesla used his imagination to prove and apply this hypothesis.".
An alternating current motor alternates the current from negative to positive. It is very hard to understand the concept.
He worked as an electrical engineer in Germany, Hungary and France, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1884. He arrived in New York with 4 cents in his pocket. Tesla found employment with Thomas Edison in New Jersey. Differences in their styles soon made them break up.
3"In 1884, George Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Company, fought patent rights to Tesla's alternating current motor." Because of Edison's inventions of direct current motors, Tesla's invention proved so good he lighted the World Columbia Exposition in 1893.
Tesla opened a lab in 1891. He experimented with everything. He tried different lighting systems often. .
4"To counter fears of alternating current, Tesla gave an exposition in his laboratory in which he lighted lamps without wires by allowing electricity to flow through his body.".
Since childhood Tesla had dreamed of harnessing Niagara Falls in late 1893. His dream became real, when Westinghouse was awarded the contract to create the powerhouse. The Falls Commission did not like what other people wanted to do so they gave it to them. Their failed plans were to use springs, hydraulics and pulleys, but they did not work. Edison wanted to use direct current which we know today is not very efficient. Lord Kelvin liked direct current, but he went to the Chicago Exposition and saw that alternating current is more efficient than direct current.
