Nikola Tesla

 Born July 10th, 1856

 Smiljan, Austria (now Croatia)
 Father: Rev. Milutin Tesla
 Mother: Duka Mandic
 Sisters: Milka, Angelina and Marica Tesla
 1875 starts technical schooling
in Graz, Austria for three years
 Quits school and moves to
Maribor, Slovenia
 Starts Charles-Ferdinand
University in Prague in 1880
 Fell ill
 Moves to Budapest, Hungary, to work under
Tivadar Puskás in a telegraph company
 Becomes chief electrician to the company
 Develops first loud speaker
 Moves to Paris, France to work for the
Continental Edison Company, helping to
resolve problems with their DC dynamos
 Goes back to his mothers birthplace after he
learns of her death
 6 June 1884 first arrived in the US in New York City
 Edison hires Tesla to work for his Edison Machine
Works
 Offered 1.1 million dollars if he redesigned Edison's
inefficient motor and generators
 Quits working for Edison and begins to dig ditches
 1886, Tesla forms Tesla Electric Light &
Manufacturing
 Initial financial investors relieve Tesla of
his duties at the company
 1886 to 1887 works as a common
laborer to raise capital for his next
project
 1880 constructs alternating current induction motor and the
Tesla coil
 Begins working with George Westinghouse at Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh labs
 Experiments with X-rays, mechanical resonance, radio
technology, radio controlling of a boat model
 AC current was used to
illuminate the exhibition
 Wins the contract to light
Niagara Falls with AC
electricity
 November 16, 1896 first
power reaches Buffalo
 1899, Tesla begins research in Colorado Springs,
Colorado
 conducting wireless telegraphy experiments
 observed unusual signals that he later thought may
have been evidence of extraterrestrial radio
communications
 Left January 1900
 Received $150,000 from J.
P. Morgan to construct
Wardenclyffe
 December 12,
1901Marconi developmed
a radiotelegraph system
 Morgan stopped funding
the project
 1905 the project was
abandoned
 On 11 July 1934 the headline
on the front page of the New
York Times read, "TESLA, AT 78,
BARES NEW 'DEATH BEAM.'"
 Died some time between the evening of 5 January and the morning of 8
January 1943, at the age of 86.
 Tesla's funeral took place on 12 January 1943, at the Cathedral of Saint
John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City.
 His body was cremated and his ashes taken to Belgrade, Yugoslavia in
1957. The urn was placed in the Nikola Tesla Museum.