Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was born midnight on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Lika, which at that time was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which is now known as Croatia. His father was named Milutin Tesla and he was a Serbian Orthodox Priest. Djuka Mandic was his mother and she invented household appliances. Tesla was the fourth child of five, having one older brother and three younger sisters. In 1873, Tesla studied at the the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. At first, he wanted to pursue in physics and mathematics, but shortly after he became extremely interested in electricity. He began studying alternating current their also. Supposedly he had a photographic memory being able to memorize complete books. In December 1878, he left Graz and his family. In 1881, he started his career as an electrical engineer working for a telephone company in Budapest. It was around that time that Tesla was able to discover the solution for the rotating magnetic field. He was able to describe the basics of the induction motor to his peers. Later his alternating current induction motor would be considered one of the ten greatest discoveries of all time. Before coming to America, Tesla joined the Continental Edison Company in Paris where he designed. In February 1882, Tesla discovered the rotating magnetic field, an important principle in physics and it was also the start to pretty much all devices that use alternating current. In 1883, he secretly built a prototype of the induction motor which he was able to run successfully. Nobody in Europe cared about promoting his unqualified device, Tesla then accepted an offer to work for Thomas Edison in New York. His childhood dream was to come to America and to be able to grasp ...

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...ough he had so many patents he died have a severe amount of debt. Nikola Tesla's funeral took place on January 12, 1943, at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City. His body was cremated and his ashes taken to Yugoslavia in 1957. His urn was placed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. A monument to Tesla was built at Niagara Falls, New York. There was also another monument which had Tesla standing on a portion of an alternator at Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Nikola Tesla’s name is honored with an International Unit of Magnetic Flux Density called “Tesla." In 1975 Tesla was also inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of Fame. Tesla predicted that the world will eventually use the suns power and harness it to power everything we own. So far what he said is starting to come true. That is the story of Nikola Tesla’s life.