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Nikola Tesla

  • Born

    Born
    Nikola Tesla is born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire. (Modern day Croatia)
  • Tesla attends college

    Tesla attends college
    Tesla attends the Austrian Polytechnic School in Graz on a Military scholarship.
  • Alternating Current

    Alternating Current
    Tesla thinks of a diagram for a alternating current motor.
  • Tesla shows AC motor

    Tesla shows his prototype AC motor
  • Arrives in the US

    Arrives in the US
    Tesla arrives in the United States of America.
  • Tesla Electric Light Company

    Tesla Electric Light Company
    With the help of investors Tesla creates Tesla Electric Light Company
  • Tesla speech to the AIEE

    Tesla gives a speech about Alternating Current to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
  • Tesla discovers wireless frequencies

    Tesla discovers wireless frequencies
    Tesla illuminates a vacuum tube wirelessly.
  • Wardenclyffe Tower

    Wardenclyffe Tower
    Tesla's starts building his dream of a global wireless system
  • Bankrupt

    Bankrupt
    After countless failed projects Nikola Tesla declares Bankruptcy
  • Wardenclyffe Tower Taken Down

    The failed project of Wardenclyffe Tower is taken down
  • Tesla Dies

    Tesla Dies
    Nikola Tesla dies at age 86 in New York