Nikola Tesla''the man who invented the 20th century'', the brilliant scientist, who has changed lives all over the world, was born, raised and first gained knowledge in Croatia.
On the night of 10th July 1856.g Smiljana above the village near Gospic raging storm is unprecedented. Devastating flash of lightning and thunder, were both later found, a powerful omen, that is, that marked the birth, but also determine the life of Nikola Tesla.
Tesla was a Serb origin [1] and still be proud of their originating Serbian and Croatian homeland. Tesla's father Milutin was an Orthodox priest, a mother of Georgina Mandic (called Duka) without formal education, but very intelligent woman.
Parents were Nicholas pressured to become a priest, but he opposed it, and he enrolled to study technical sciences in Graz. Later the technique to study in Prague. After graduating, working at the telephone company and joined the phones in their homes over the next two years.
One time, he worked as an engineer Telephone Company in Budapest. After Budapest, the employee is Edison Company (Continental Edison Company) in Paris. Tesla now had a high opinion of Edison. Working in Strasbourg (1883.) Night-time constructs the first induction motor. A year later, sixth June (1894). goes to the United States and became an American citizen. There is general in Edison's company, but two scientists have a different attitude, and Tesla went and founded his own company - Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing.
Although life is often ridiculed and misunderstood because of his eccentricities, is today considered one of the most prolific geniuses in electronics. Its great merit is the introduction of alternating current in wide use. Tesla's inventions based on alternating current became the basis for further development of the entire electrical engineering. Achieved over a thousand inventions and patents - three-phase system for transmission of electric power, generator and transformer for high frequency current (Tesla coil), etc. He was one of the pioneers of radio technology: he found a system for wireless control and signaling at a distance , has found a new lighting system, designed high frequency alternators based transmission of radio stations, produced by lighting, electromagnetic waves, discovered and patented the principle of resonance for radio-links, presented the idea of interplanetary telecommunications using ultra-short waves, and conceived the whole radar system. He has published papers in physics in which he presented original ideas that were later realized.
Tesla has stayed true Prometheus of modern times, the genius who brought light into human life, and I was at the end of his life he was committed to the darkness of oblivion. Yet scientists are still searching for his notebook looking for unrealized projects.
In Smiljan in 2006. open Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in honor of the brilliant scientist.
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