Biography Of Tesla Research Paper

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Tesla was born on July 10,1846 and died January 7,1943. Tesla died from a disease called Coronary Thrombosis
The disease causes clots in the blood vessels in the heart it is classified as a type of ischemic heart disease aka heart attack.
Tesla grew up in a family of five children which included himself and his siblings Dane, Angelina, Milka and Marica. Tesla's interest in electrical invention was caused by his mother inventing small household appliances in her spare time while her son was growing up by his mother, Djuka Mandic sadly at age 5 tragedy struck his sister Dane was killed in a horse riding accident
Tesla is a renowned scientist he had accomplished so much in his life time that some people only dream of he created the induction
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Sadly the Grac University is now abandoned.

When in college he was suspected of cheating because he finished a 4 year term in 3 years.
Order of St. Sava, II Class, Government of Serbia (1892) Elliott Cresson Medal (1894) Order of Prince Danilo I (1895) Edison Medal (1916) Order of St. Sava, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1926) Order of the Yugoslav Crown (1931) John Scott Medal (1934) Order of the White Eagle, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1936) Order of the White Lion, I Class, Government of Czechoslovakia (1937) University of Paris Medal (1937) The Medal of the University St. Clement of Ochrida, Sofia, Bulgaria (1939)

Tesla lived in and grew up in a town called Smiljam located in serbia upon his return several years later he contracted a disease called cholera won’t go into the disease’s symptoms but let’s just say it infects the small intestines. He was also bedridden for nine months
I couldn’t find much information on tesla’s marriage but sadly he never married
Were do I begin tesla had ideas for everything and I mean everything ideas for early x-ray imagine, death rays , force fields , and a machine that could project thoughts to name just a few he even had an early RC boat that he sold to get some money for more

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