Amaya Toman Unfortunately, the history of technology also includes sad events. We will remember one of them in today's episode of our "historical" series - on January 7, 1943, the inventor Nikola Tesla died. In the second part of the article, we will move forward twenty years and recall the introduction of the Sketchpad program.
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Nikola Tesla died (1943)
On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla, the inventor, physicist and designer of electrical machines, died in New York at the age of 86. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan to Serbian parents. After graduating from grammar school, Nikola Tesla began studying physics and mathematics in Graz. Already during his studies, the cantors recognized Tesla's talent and provided him with assistance in physics experiments. In the summer of 1883, Tesla built the first AC motor. Among other things, Nikola Tesla completed one semester of study at Prague's Charles University, then engaged in electricity research in Budapest, and in 1884 he settled permanently in the United States. Here he worked at Edison Machine Works, but after disagreements with Edison, he founded his own company called Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, which was engaged in the production and patenting of improvements for arc lamps. But Tesla was fired from the company after a while, and after a few years he contributed with his discovery to the invention of the AC induction motor. He continued to devote himself intensively to research and inventions, with approximately three hundred different patents to his credit.
Introducing Sketchpad (1963)
On January 7, 1963, Ivan Sutherland introduced Sketchpad - one of the first programs for the TX-0 computer that allowed direct manipulation and interaction with objects on the computer screen. Sketchpad is considered one of the most important predecessors of graphic computer programs. Sketchpad found its use mainly in the field of working with scientific and mathematical drawings, a little later it served as the basis for computer graphics, the interface of computer operating systems and for software applications that are among modern technologies.
