On May 18, 1917, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now the IEEE) awarded Tesla with the Edison Medal. Already in 1896, the grand Knight of physics, Lord Kelvin, said that, “Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.” And the truth is that the most important award that Tesla received was the Edison Medal, which his supposed enemy could easily have prevented, because this distinction was created and awarded by a commitee which included some good friends of Edison. The achievements of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) were immediately recognized and he was a revered figure from a young age until his final years, both by his peers and by the general public. However, the documented reality is different. And in this mythical story appears a greedy villain named Thomas Edison, who first does his best to prevent Tesla’s success and later tries to smother his recognition Nikola Tesla with his coil in 1896. In popular culture, Tesla is seen as an unsung hero whose merits were not sufficiently recognized. In the last two decades, the public fascination with the figure of Nikola Tesla has enlarged the myth to such an extent that it now exceeds the unquestionable achievements of this great Serbian inventor. The figure of the mad scientist, the eccentric genius, no longer belongs exclusively to Einstein.
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