The AC-based power system is the foundation of modern power generation. Contemporary ways in which we get electricity in our homes, schools, and offices were built on advances that came from Tesla’s invention. The 60-day cycle in which the power frequency changes direction was originated by Tesla's polyphase AC motor and is still being used by power plants today.
SOURCE: Discovery UK, December 2018.
Even though direct current lost the War, it still generated other significant advancements in electric distribution; some are still being used today:
NorNed Cable, a sub-sea high voltage DC line that runs power between Norway and the Netherlands. SOURCE: Youris.com, 2017.
DC-powered data center. SOURCE: Scientific American, March 2012.
DC-generating wind turbines. SOURCE: Scientific American, March 2012.
Tesla's whole life seems unreal, as if he were a fabled create of some Olympian world. A reporter, after writing a story of his discoveries and inventions, concluded, "His accomplishments seems like the dream of an intoxicated god." It was Tesla's invention of the polyphase alternating-current system that was directly responsible for harnessing Niagara Falls and opened the modern electrical superpower era in which electricity is transported for hundred of miles, to operate the tens of thousands of mass-production factories of industrial systems. Every one of the tall Martian-like towers of the eletrical transmission lines that stalk across the earth, and whose wires carry electricity to distant cities, is a monument to Tesla; every powerhouse, every dynamo and every motor that drives every machine in the country is a monument to him.
- James O'Neill. Prodigal genius: the life of Nikola Tesla, 2007.
Tesla’s success led to increased funding for his company. This is where he developed key technologies that not only broke barriers but would also change the world.
Article crediting Tesla for the invention of the X-ray. SOURCE: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 1898.
Article about how Tesla invented remote-controlled boats. SOURCE: The Salt Lake Herald, November 1898.
Article crediting Tesla for inventing wireless system. SOURCE: Zajedničar = Fraternalist, May 1956.