33_Genius and inventor：天才和發(fā)明家
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th, 1856...
尼古拉·特斯拉生于1856年7月10日…
...in the territory of modern day Croatia to his two Serbian parents.
出生于當(dāng)今克羅地亞境內(nèi)，與他的兩對塞爾維亞父母。
Tesla grew up into a bright, inquisitive, yet eccentric child...
特拉斯長大成為一個聰明、好奇而又古怪的孩子。
...who found himself fascinated by the world around him.
他發(fā)現(xiàn)他對于自己周圍的世界非常著迷。
Tesla once attempted to generate electricity by rubbing two cats together,...
特斯拉曾試圖通過讓兩只貓?jiān)谝黄鹉Σ羴戆l(fā)電，
...which resulted in two very mad cats and a scratched up Tesla.
結(jié)果導(dǎo)致了兩只瘋狂的貓和被撓傷的特斯拉。
On June 6th, 1884, Tesla arrived in the United States.
1884年6月6日，特斯拉來到美國。
He was hired by Thomas Edison to do basic electrical engineering,...
他受雇于托馬斯·愛迪生進(jìn)行基本的電氣工程。
..but moved up to redesigning the direct current generators that ran Edison's business.
但升職后重新設(shè)計(jì)直流發(fā)電機(jī)，經(jīng)營愛迪生的業(yè)務(wù)。
Tesla eventually left Edison's company and partnered with George Westinghouse in 1888...
特斯拉后來離開了愛迪生的公司, 在1888年與喬治•威斯汀豪斯進(jìn)行合作…
...to commercialize his system of alternating current.
The problem here is that alternating current competed with direct current,...
...which Thomas Edison built his entire monopoly on.
Thus began the War of the Currents.
Tesla's influence spreads much further than electricity.
He had over 700 patents and came up with ideas...
...such as robots, spark plugs, the electric arc lamp,...
...an X-ray device, bladeless turbines,...
...wireless communication, laser technology, neon lights,...
...remote controls, cellular communication, the radio,...
...an electrical bath to remove germs, radar, and much more.
Despite his fame and influence on the world,...
...he died with significant debts and all alone.
While Edison is known as the inventor of the century,...
...Tesla is only acknowledged as a paragraph in today's history books:...
..forgotten and unappreciated.
Thus ends the story of Nikola Tesla, genius and inventor.
