Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #48: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was one of history's greatest inventors and engineers. He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism, contributions which helped spark the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla's patents and ideas form the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor. Tesla further contributed to the creation of robotics, remote control, radar, computer science and nuclear physics, among other fields. In addition, strong evidence exists to consider him the inventor of radio. Tesla provided the theoretical and, in some cases, the practical raw material for many of the technologies that make the modern world modern. For his contribution alone in making electricity viable on a large scale, he deserves to be viewed, not only as a genius scientist, but as one of history’s great humanitarians. Go to #49: Paracelsus Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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