Who Was Nikola Tesla? by Jim Gigliotti & Who HQ & John Hinderliter

Author:Jim Gigliotti & Who HQ & John Hinderliter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

Thomas Edison hired Nikola to work at Edison Machine Works and nicknamed him “the Parisian.” He was impressed by Nikola’s dedication to his work. In fact, his long hours were much like Edison’s. Edison was famous for working around the clock, sometimes stopping only to nap in his clothes for a few hours right in his laboratory.

One day, Edison was leaving the office at five o’clock in the morning after working all night. “Here is our Parisian running around at night,” Edison joked. But Nikola wasn’t running around. He had spent the entire night fixing the dynamos—the electricity generators—Edison’s company had installed on board a ship called the SS Oregon. It was one of the first ships with an electric lighting system. Edison was very impressed.

Not long after, Edison gave Nikola the task of redesigning the company’s direct-current generators—the machines that actually produced all of their electricity. It was a huge job that involved designing more than twenty different machines. If Nikola could do it, he was told, he would be paid a $50,000 bonus!

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