Nikola Tesla In the world of electricity there is no inventor more famous than Thomas Edison who fills history books with his world of lights and electricity. Radios, X-Ray’s, alternating current (AC) and the Television are all around today thanks to a man who most American students never hear about in school. The Master of Lightning, Nikola Tesla, is a man who is missing from the very same history book, as Edison. Tesla is the inventor of the electric motor, the remote control, and the Tesla coil. He lit up the world with amazing inventions still used today. To have such a bright inventor, who illuminated the path for such great inventions used today to be left in the dark is an insult to the world. Born in July of 1856 in Austria, the son an orthodox priest and an unschooled woman, Tesla was an imaginative child who was highly encouraged to follow in his father’s lead into priesthood (Hunt, 2012). At the age of seventeen Tesla contracted cholera, being an intelligent young man he made a deal with his father that if he survived he would be allowed to follow his dream and go to a technical college. With his survival Tesla was allowed to fall his dream and went to Technical University at Graz, where he was introduced to the Gramme Dynamo, an invention that inspired and hunted him for years. At the age of twenty-four, while he was walking with a friend in Budapest, he saw a lightning strike and with a stick he drew in the sand his first design for the induction motor (PBS, 2012). In 1882 Tesla was living in Paris, France and working for The Continental Edison Company where he was working with their direct current (DC) generator facilities. After years of working in his free time he was able to finish his first induction motor in 1883. Shortly after the completion of his motor Tesla decide to share his ideas with the world and decided to head to America. When he