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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American. He has 5 brother. -
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with finan -
First time he went to school
In 1861, he attended elementary school in Smiljan, where he studied German, arithmetic and religion. In 1862, the family moved to Gospic, Austrian Empire, where his father worked as a pastor. In 1870, he moved to Karlovac, Croatia, to attend the Royal Gymnasium Gospic, where he was influenced by his math teacher Martin Sekulic -
Flee Army recruitment and start University
Tomingaj fleeing near Gracac. In 1875, he enrolled on a scholarship at the Polytechnic School in Graz, Austria. During his first year he never missed a class and earned the highest possible scores. At the end of his sophomore year he lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling. During his third year tuition money he gambled. He never graduated from college and in December 1878, left Graz and cut ties with his family trying to hide the dropout. He moved to Maribor (now Slovenia), where h -
Mom Died
her mother died, and during that year, he taught the students at his old school. In January 1880, two of his uncles together enough money to send him to Prague where intended to study at University, but unfortunately, it came too late to register; also not studied Greek or Czech, compulsory subjects. Tesla attended lectures at the University, though, as auditor, he received never ratings of courses. -
First Job
He moved to Budapest to work on Ferenc Puskas where he became chief electrician. During his employment, he made many improvements in equipment from the central station and claimed to have perfected a phone that never patented. -
First Design
his first practical system design was held to generate and transmit AC for electric power systems. Developed AC induction motor, eliminating the commutator and brushes of DC motors ignition and it introduced improvements in the field of transmission and generation of AC power, noting that both the generation as the transmission of the same that could be obtained rather more effectively with an alternating current in the case of the DC the most commonly used at that time. -
Other design (Wardencliff Tower)
a wireless communication system designed and built an antenna of over 30 meters in height, the Wardencliff Tower, which aim to transmit electrical energy without wires, with the same principle of operation as the radio. He patented more than 700 inventions such as an electrical submarine in 1898 and a small ship that would capture energy emitted by the Wardencliff Tower that would be stored in its batteries. -
Nikola Tesla Died
Nikola Tesla falleció en soledad el 7 de enero de 1943, en la habitación 3327 del New Yorker Hotel, en la ciudad de Nueva York (Estados Unidos). Su cuerpo fue encontrado después de ignorar el letrero de "no molestar" que había colocado en la puerta dos días antes.