Generator Floor (Holter Dam)

Nicola Tesla, while walking home one evening as the orange sun was sliding down against the purpled earth, suddenly envisioned magnetic poles fixed around the fiery orb--three electrically pulsating phases to be exact--creating a rotating magnetic field around the sun. But not the sun...imagine, instead, the rotor of a motor now grasped and spun by the spinning magnetic field. From that very moment, Tesla invented the future. From that instant, at the close of the 1800's, emerged the AC generators we use today, induction motors, transformers, and our AC power grid. From that sharp moment of insight, Tesla led all of us into the modern era. How is it that he has been forgotten?


--Mitchell Hegman