2. GENERAL INFORMATION:
Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 and
he died on 7 January 1943.
He was born in the village Smiljan, Lika
county, in the Austrian Empire , which
belonged to Serbian community .
He was inventor, electrical engineer and
mechanical engineer.
When he was a child , he had a lot of
imagination and he was interested in
inventions following his mother’s example.
He was also keen on reading Jule Verne’s
and Emil Zola's books.
3. STUDIES
In 1863 he moved to Gospić with his parents
where he learned German.
In 1870 he continiued his education until 1873 in
Rakovats where he lived in his aunt's house .
His father helped him to get a scholarship in
Austrian Polytechnic in Graz where he attended lots
of subjects and he studied many hours per day . As
a result he had excellent performance , but he
didn’t graduate from college.
4. THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER
In 1881 he moved to France where he came in
touch with Edison’s work and gained knowledge
about generators and engines .
When he went to Strasbourg in 1887 he managed
to develope an induction motor that ran on
alternating current .
5. IMPORTANT INVENTIONS
The Tesla Coil: It is a tower that uses coils to shoot
lightning out into the air.
The Magnifying Transmitter: he built two record-
breaking Tesla Coils. The towers shot out lightning
bolts 130 feet long.
The Tesla Turbine: He developed his own turbine
style engine that used combustion to make disks
rotate.
The Shadowgraph: the first x-ray film.
The Radio
The Neon Lamp
The Induction Motor
6. THE MOST FAMOUS ACHIEVEMENT
The Alternating Current: Alternating Current is
considered Tesla’s crowning achievement. While
not the inventor of AC power he made it easy to use
extensively. AC power allows for electricity to be
sent over long distances much more efficiently.
7. DEATH
On 7 January 1943, at the age of 86, Tesla died
alone in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. His
body was later found by maid Alice Monaghan after
she had entered Tesla's room, ignoring the "do not
disturb" sign that Tesla had placed on his door two
days earlier. Assistant medical examiner H.W.
Wembley examined the body and ruled that the
cause of death had been coronary thrombosis.
