For several years he puzzled over the problem while he worked on machines, and then one day, when he as twenty-six years old, Nikola had a revelation when he was out walking with a friend. When Nikola suggested that it would make more sense to use alternating current rather than direct current, the professor “scoffed.” Many people had tried to make motors that could run on alternating current, but no one had succeeded.īeing told that no one had managed to use alternating current to power a motor made Nikola determined that he should be the one to achieve this goal.
When he got to university Nikola watched as a professor demonstrated a machine that could create electricity and run a small motor. There was “invisible energy everywhere.” He decided that one day he would “turn the power of Niagara Falls into electricity.” Candlewick Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-0763658557įrom a very early age Nikola Tesla was fascinated by the power that he saw in nature by lightning during a storm, by the way in which water in a creek could push a waterwheel so that it turned, and by the way in which June bugs could make a propeller spin.
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