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    Nikola Tesla, (1856-1945) was the inventor of the World’s lighting and well-known for his contribution to the world of science and technology. Tesla, a son of priest from Orthodox faith, he was born in born in Serbian in the territory of Yugoslav. He is the first inventor of the outstanding radio communication. Tesla is also known for his invention, who devised the powerful alternating current (AC) model that significantly became the industry electric standard. AC is widely considered one of the…

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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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    Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His father, Milutin Tesla, served as a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church and his mother, Đuka Tesla, managed their farm. Tesla was one of the five siblings born, including: Dane, Angelina, Milka, and Marica. Throughout most of Tesla’s childhood, he was stricken with illness time after time. In 1863, his brother Dane was killed in a riding accident. This unsettled Tesla at the age…

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    Nikola Tesla creative mind of past present, and future. Life for Nikola Tesla wasn’t very easy. He was very influenced by his family. He has also made over one hundred inventions some of which we still use today. Modern science is still working with and improving his inventions today. Nikola was born July 10 1856 in Croatia. His father was an orthodox priest and his mother was an unschooled but very intelligent women. During school he began experimenting with alternating currents. He was…

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    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 inventions. During his early high school years, Tesla took great…

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    Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 and later died January 7, 1943. He was born and raised in the Austrian Empire. Tesla received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he would become a naturalized citizen. He also work in new york city before he went on his own at the Edison Machine Works. In the wake of learning at the Realschule, Karlstadt (later…

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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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    Nikola Tesla was a phenomenal engineer and inventor, who may have had some mental issues but never let that prevent him from doing amazing things. My interest in Nikola Tesla comes from his work including electric power. As an electrical engineer I am obviously interested in electricity myself. When he was nineteen years of age he started studying electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria. There he was an excellent student. In June of 1884, Tesla traveled to New York…

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    These are things you probably use everyday. The inventor of the AC motor and radio was Nikola Tesla. One of his inventions, the Tesla Coil, was used in early radio antennas. He was a brilliant man with a powerful imagination. He won the ‘war of currents’ and made lighting. And this is his story. He was born in July of 1856, in the small town of Gospic. He was named after his father, Nikola Tesla. The last name of the Tesla’s is taken from an ax that has a “broad cutting blade at…

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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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