Nikola Tesla Quotes


We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.


Citations

Tesla, Nikola. "On Electricity." Electrical Review, 27 Jan. 1897.

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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
  • Born: July 10, 1856
  • Died: January 7, 1943
  • Nationality: Swedish
  • Profession: Scientist

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.