The Sculpting of an inventor

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in a town called Lika located in the mountainous region of the Balkan Peninsula.  His father, a priest who had a passion for literature, fueled Nikola's young mind with his expansive library.  Nikola's mother also inspired her son by tinkering with inventions of her own to make her motherly duties easier.  His home life perfectly prepared Tesla for the creations he was about to unleash upon the world.  Young Tesla knew this and begged his family for support to attend college at the Austrian Polytechnic School at Graz to begin his studies in engineering.   Nikola Tesla was granted permission by his father to attend college after overcoming a nasty case of cholera.  At college, Tesla was introduced to a gramme dynamo, which could work as a motor and generator using direct current.  Tesla told his professor that there was a more efficient way of powering the machine.  What young Tesla was referring to would be later known as alternating current and it would change the way we saw the world.

A mugshot of Nikola Tesla