 Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in what is now Smiljan, Croatia.

He
was one of five children which included siblings Dane, Angelina, Milka and
Marica, in the family. Tesla's interest in electrical invention was spurred by his
mother, Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances in her spare
time while her son was growing up. Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, was a
Serbian orthodox priest and a writer, and he pushed for his son to join the
priesthood. But Nikola's interests lay squarely in the sciences. After studying at
the Realschule, Karlstadt (later renamed the Johann-Rudolph-Glauber
Realschule Karlstadt); the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria; and the
University of Prague during the 1870s, Tesla moved to Budapest, where for a
time he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange. It was while in Budapest
that the idea for the induction motor first came to Tesla, but after several years
of trying to gain interest in his invention, at age 28 Tesla decided to leave
Europe for America.
 Rebuilt, Tesla's house (parish hall) in Smiljan, now
in Croatia, where he was born, and the rebuilt
church, where his father served. During the Yugoslav
Wars, several of the buildings were severely damaged
by fire. They were restored and reopened in 2006.[12]
 In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest, Hungary, to work
under Tivadar Puskás at a telegraph company, the
Budapest Telephone Exchange. Upon arrival, Tesla
realized that the company, then under construction, was
not functional, so he worked as a draftsman in the
Central Telegraph Office instead. Within a few months,
the Budapest Telephone Exchange became functional,
and Tesla was allocated the chief electrician
position.[25] During his employment, Tesla made many
improvements to the Central Station equipment and
claimed to have perfected a
telephone repeater or amplifier, which was never
patented nor publicly described.
 Inventor Nikola Tesla was born in July of 1856, in what
is now Croatia. He came to the United States in 1884
and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two
parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including
those to his alternating-current machinery, to George
Westinghouse. His 1891 invention, the "Tesla coil," is
still used in radio technology today. Tesla died in New
York City on January 7, 1943.
 In 1882, Tivadar Puskás got Tesla another job in Paris with
the Continental Edison Company.[39] Tesla began working in
what was then a brand new industry, installing indoor
incandescent lighting citywide in the form of an electric
power utility. The company had several subdivisions and
Tesla worked at the Société Electrique Edison, the division in
the Ivry-sur-Seine suburb of Paris in charge of installing the
lighting system. There he gained a great deal of practical
experience in electrical engineering. Management took notice
of his advanced knowledge in engineering and physics and
soon had him designing and building improved versions of
generating dynamos and motors.[40] They also sent him on to
troubleshoot engineering problems at other Edison utilities
being built around France and in Germany.
 1. Alternating Current
 2. Light
 3. X-rays
 4. Radio
 5. Remote Control
 6. Electric Motor
 7. Robotics
 8. Laser
 9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless
Free Energy
 After suffering a nervous breakdown, Tesla eventually
returned to work, primarily as a consultant. But as time
went on, his ideas became progressively more outlandish
and impractical. He also grew increasingly eccentric,
devoting much of his time to the care of wild pigeons in
New York City's parks. He even drew the attention of the
FBI with his talk of building a powerful "death beam,"
which had received some interest from the Soviet Union
during World World II.
 Poor and reclusive, Nikola Tesla died on January 7,
1943, at the age of 86, in New York City, where he had
lived for nearly 60 years. But the legacy of the work he
left behind him lives on to this day.
 Several books and films have highlighted Tesla's life
and famous works, including Nikola Tesla, The
Genius Who Lit the World, a documentary
produced by the Tesla Memorial Society and the
Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia; and The
Secret of Nikola Tesla, which stars Orson Welles as
J. P. Morgan). And in the 2006 Christopher Nolan
film The Prestige, Tesla was portrayed by rock
star/actor David Bowie. In 1994, a street sign
identifying "Nikola Tesla Corner" was installed near
the site of his former New York City laboratory, at
the intersection of 40th Street and 6th Avenue.
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