He was born on 9 July 1856, in the village of Smiljan, in the province of Lika, Croatia. There he completed his elementary education, continued his studies at the Graz Polytechnic School and completed them at the University of Prague.
He worked as an electrical engineer in Germany, Hungary and France before emigrating to the United States in 1884.
He worked as an electrical engineer in Germany, Hungary and France before emigrating to the United States in 1884. In New York he worked alongside Thomas Edison, improving many of his inventions. However, differences in style between the two men soon led to their separation.
Tesla resigned in 1885 and founded his own company, the Tesla Arc Light Company. From 1887 to 1894 he designed and patented dozens of patents, working with business tycoon George Westinghouse, who bought the patent rights to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
The countdown for the great scientist began in 1895. Due to financial difficulties, his company went bankrupt. As time went by, Tesla became more and more eccentric and reserved, and he used to spend all day experimenting with radio waves and also with seismic machines that he had built himself.
Tesla offered mankind inventions such as alternating current, the polyphase system, the Tesla coil, x-ray photography, radio waves, radio, radar, etc, paving the way for the electrification of the planet. In 1912 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Thomas Edison. However, he refused to accept it, considering it demeaning to share the prize with "a mere inventor."
The prophet of the 21st century, as many consider him, died poor and forgotten by all, on January 7, 1943, in a New York City hotel. After his death, his name was given to the unit of measurement of Magnetic Field Induction, and his legacy-70,000 letters, 31,522 personal documents, 5,297 technical drawings, 12,832 magazine clippings, 1.000 photographs, 40 awards and diplomas - is today kept in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
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