Nikola Tesla drew his world-famous invention into the dust of Budapest
In the last two hundred years, many famous people have visited the Budapest City Park, artists, scientists, politicians, From Franz Joseph and From inside Liszt Ferencen at Karinthy Frigyesig. A compilation of them, more precisely of their “attachment” in the city park, was published by a Past – kor.hu, from which one of the greatest minds has ever lived, To Nikola Tesla we quote a binding anecdote.
Tesla at the age of 25, in 1881 in Pest, a Tivadar Puskásworked as a technician on the installation of a telephone exchange, but a few months after his arrival, he suffered a nervous breakdown from the strained work. An employee and a good friend of Városliget, Antal Szigeti he was encouraged to do so, he talked about regular exercise and outdoor walks from which he regained his health. According to an anecdote known in several versions, Tesla was walking in Szigetki with the City Park, and just now Goethe He quoted Faust: “The deity is falling, for a few moments one can even get a body wing!” At that moment, he flashed the recognition into his brain.
Independent of the legend, Tesla invented the principle of operation of alternating current equipment during a walk in Pest in 1881, and during a mission to Strasbourg in 1883 he made the first experimental copy of an alternating current motor. The motor is considered by many to be one of the most important inventions of mankind, and to this day it is the basis of our electrical equipment.