Wireless Electricity.ppt

Wireless Electricity By Gavriel Gavrilov Alexander Zaltsman The first mover and innovator Born in Austro-Hungary (now Croatia) in 1856, Tesla constructed his first induction motor in 1883 and immigrated to America in 1884 - arriving in New York with worldly goods totaling four cents, a pocket full of poems, carefully worked calculations for a flying machine, and a head full of strange dreams. Tesla began working with Thomas Edison, but the two men were worlds apart in both their science and cultures (the fact that Teslas alternating-current concept posed a direct threat to sales of Edisons direct-current devices probably didnt help) and they soon went their separate ways. Tesla invented the alternating-current generator that provides your light and electricity, the transformer through which it is sent, and even the high voltage coil of your picture tube. The Tesla Coil, in fact, is used in radios, television sets, and a wide range of other electronic equipment - invented in 1891, no-ones ever come up with anything better. Letting Tesla go wasnt the brightest thing Edison had ever done, though - George Westinghouse promptly snapped up the patent rights to Teslas alternating-current motors, dynamos, and transformers. The buy-out triggered a power struggle which eventually saw Edisons direct-current systems relegated to second place, and the DC motors installed in German and Irish trains only a few years before, rendered obsolete. Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943) “Nikola Tesla, the eccentric - and unbelievably under-rated - genius known as the ‘wild man of electronics’, was without doubt one of the greatest minds in the history of the human race.”  The forgotten invention is reborn in 2007 The idea of wireless electricity has been around since the early days of the Tesla coil. But thanks to a group of MIT scientists, WiTricity (as these scientists call it) is now one step closer to practical reality. Demonstrating the ability to power a 60-watt light bulb from a pow