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    Nikola Tesla: The Man Who Invented the Modern World How does one man invent the world we live in today? It takes an unstoppable psychopath with an unusual hope for humanity. Nikola Tesla marked the beginning of the modern world, but so many don’t know how or even who he is. This was mainly because he was mistreated by one person, a colleague, who everyone knows today as Thomas Edison. He was much smarter than Edison, but Edison was greedy and Tesla was very giving to the world. Edison died rich

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    fascinates me is Nikola Tesla; he was a physicist, inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He had many creative ideas that had really change the world, but he had many more inventions that could had an impact towards society. There were some ideas he had created; for example, alternating current, harnessing and distributing light, and many more. His thoughts towards distributing and harnessing light was the lead creation of the Tesla Coil; in addition, an article, Nikola Tesla Inventions

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    Nikola Tesla Born July 10, 1856 meaning that if he was still alive today he would be 158 years old. He was a serbian-american his mom’s name was Duka Tesla she made small household appliances. His father’s name is Mulitin Tesla he was a orthodox priest and also urged his son to join the priesthood ,but Nikola refused to instead he was more interested in science. His interests were spurred by his mother. He studied at Realschule; Karlstadt this college is located in Graz Austria. He went to college

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    Nikola Tesla (1856 –1943) was one of the greatest and most enigmatic scientists who played a key role in the development of electromagnetism and other scientific discoveries of his time. Despite his breathtaking number of patents and discoveries, his achievements were often underplayed during his lifetime. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in what is now Smiljan, Croatia. Tesla's interest in electrical based inventions was spurred by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances

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    inventions did not impact the field of science he researched in, Nikola Tesla is the most influential person in history because of his revolutionary ideas and inventions. Tesla advanced the way people lived and interacted through many inventions. One of Tesla’s many inventions, the speaker, helped many communicate

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    During a lightning storm on the 10th of July 1856, the soon to be famous Nikola Tesla was born. During the birthing, the midwife said that he would be, "a child of the storm" in which his mother opposed her statement and said, "No, of the light." Since that day Tesla had grown the fame of the well-known Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Inventor Futurist known of today. Nikola was born in Smiljian, Croatia and moved to the U.S in 1884 to work with Thomas Edison. During Nikola's childhood teachers

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    Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia at midnight between July 9th and 10th 1856. He was intelligent since his early childhood. He soon became interested in engineering and he studied it at the Technical University in Graz, Austria, from 1877 to 1880. Right after that he went to the University of Prague in 1880, but his father had died and he withdrew his studies from the University soon after. Tesla always dreamed of becoming an electrical engineer and to invent a new type of power transmission

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    Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (Which is now Croatia) on the 10 July 1856. He died while he was 86 in New York City on the 7 January 1943, due to his Coronary thrombosis disease. Nikola was born into a family of five children, he had one brother and three sisters. He attended two schools in Smiljan and one school in Karlovac. When Tesla returned to his birth town where he developed cholera where he was near death a few times. He went to the Graz

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    Nikola tesla was born in 1856 in smiljan, Croatia part of the Hungarian empire. He was born to an orthodox priest and the mother was an ordinary farmer.Tesla studied maths and physics at the technical university of Graz and philosophy at the university of Prague. One day tesla while on a walk he come up with an idea of a brushless AC motor, making sketches of it in the sand path. Later he moved to Paris where he secured a job of repairing direct current power plants with the Edison company.at one

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    Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Who was Nikola Tesla? Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest Serbian-American and most enigmatic scientists. He was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist that played a key role in the development of electromagnetism and greatly contributed to the development of commercial electricity and other scientific discoveries of his time. While leading a very good life, he also made accomplishments that are still used today. Despite his breathtaking

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