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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…

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    Nikola Tesla was a great inventor from Smiljan, Croatia.He made many great inventions during his time here in the United states.Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. From there on he made many inventions that has given him a reputation that would later catch Tomas Edisons eye in many years to come. At one point Edison told Tesla he would pay $50,000 for an improved design for his DC dynamos. Tesla never got paid that money…

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    Nikola Tesla Have you ever flipped a switch or open your refrigerator and a light comes on, and questioned ,“ Why or who made the ability to turn that light on?” Well the man you are reffering to is Nikola Tesla. Though you might not know him, Nikola Tesla cretaed the AC electrical system and changed the field of electricity. Nikola Tesla was born on July 9th or 10th(not sure because of the country he was born in) in 1856 in Smijan, Crotia. He was one of five children from his mother…

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    “I don’t care that they stole my idea, I care that they don’t have any of their own” (Tesla). Those words and many more were uttered from the great master mind that is Nikola Tesla. Born in 1856, the Serbian-American resident of the town of Smiljan, which is in present day Croatia, was set on track for greatness. His father, a humble priest, however, his mother had a crafty hand for household tools and mechanical appliances which may have played a great influence on Tesla’s future creative…

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    This link sends you to a short biography about Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla got encouraged by his mom to start his career. He started his career by going to America by boat and he was hired by Thomas Edison to do basic electrical engineering. Soon after that, he started redesigning the direct current generators that ran Edison’s business. Then Edison offered Tesla $50,000 for the new improvements on the generators. After Tesla’s work was done, Edison claimed that he wasn’t serious about the…

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    Andy "Sphinx' Baker Physics Paper Rebekah Garris Nikola Tesla was one of the most influential inventors of all time. He is in the same category as Faraday and Edison. I will be talking about Nikola Tesla's life and what makes him important in our everyday lives. Also how thanks to him we now have electricity in our homes today. Also Why I choose to write my paper on him. Hope you enjoy this information about Nikola Tesla. Tesla was born on July 10th, 1856, in a small town called Smiljan…

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