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The Greatest People
in the Telecommunications, call center and answering service
sectors
Guglielmo Marconi
Arthur C.
Clark
Alexander Graham Bell
Tom Farley's Telephone
History Series
For Nikola Tesla see below
Nikola Tesla
Born in a small town called
Smilian in Serbia, Mr. Tesla is regarded as one of the
founders of the telecommunications industry. He passed away in
January of 1943 in New York.
Nikola worked hard and long
on high frequency radio waves. He was the first to demonstrate
the transmission of electrical energy without wires and in 1899
he actually created a station in Colorado where he proved he
could receive 1,000 Kilometers away - very clear radio
signals. He is the inventor of inductive coupling between two
circuits.
Tesla has over 100 patents in
the field and the entire call center and answering service
industry as well as all telecom companies owe him a great
deal.
When people speak of standing
on the shoulders of giants, Nikola Tesla is such a giant.
According to legend, Tesla
was born precisely at midnight during an electrical storm, to
a Serbian family in his village. That's the stuff legends are
made of. It's like quite a few American Presidents in the
early days of the Republic dying on the 4th of July, which is
the American Independence Day.
In 1919 Tesla wrote that
Thomas Edison offered him the huge amount of $50,000 (almost
$1 million today) , adjusted for inflation if he completed the
motor and generator improvements that he had been working on.
Tesla said he worked nearly a year to redesign them and gave
the Edison company several enormously profitable new patents
in the process. When Tesla inquired about the $50,000, Edison
reportedly replied to him, "Tesla, you don't understand our
American humor," and reneged on his promise Tesla resigned
when he was refused a raise to $25 per week.
Thomas Edison was a shrewd
businessman and genius in his own right. Tesla's had a salary
of only less than 20 dollars a week. That would have been
worth like over 50 years of pay for him had Edison kept with
his promise.
Surprisingly, Tesla found
himself doing manual labor, and his genius in
telecommunications would be either discarded or used by others
like Edison. Every contact center or cell phone
company, or answering service owes the man a great deal. From
AT&T to Sprint, to now Yahoo/SBC and so on. they all owe Tesla
for being the genius that he was and helping make the telecom
field what it is today.
We here at the Successful
Office Group will forever remember him, and our reps are told
of his genius once they become team leaders.
Want more
information on Nikola Tesla?
www.tesla-museum.org/
www.pbs.org/tesla/
www.luminet.net/~wenonah/new/tesla.htm
www.fact-index.com/n/ni/nikola_tesla.html
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