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    Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1887 In Smiljan, Croatia. Tesla is known for his brilliant work with electricity. Inventing many items we still use today in our everyday life. Also, he is known for working with Thomas Edison. After selling many of his patented inventions to J.P. Morgan, which led to his downfall, Tesla, along with his company, soon became bankrupt. He then died poor in New York City on January 7, 1943. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. He was

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    On a stormy night in 1856, Nikola Tesla was born. In his time most of his ideas were stolen and he was considered crazy. Tesla wasn’t searching for riches; rather he wanted to help the future of mankind. He was always looking for new ways to wield electricity to improve his inventions. Most of his inventions were under looked, at first they seemed impossible but he soon proved to the world that the impossible could be done. From his childhood to his adulthood, he always tried to invent new things

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    Nikola Tesla: The Light of the Century Inventors are very crucial to our society because they have helped us compose the present we know today. They are the very foundation of civilization. Inventors create the very future and specialize in innovations, and they efficiently propel the advancement of humanity. Some of them have left legacies that are immortally intact and impossible to forget, yet some names have been forgotten. One of the men that sparked the modern world was Nikola Tesla with his

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    Nikola Teslas early life. Tesla was born on the date of July 10, 1856, in Smiljian, Croatia. Tesla took an interest in electrical inventing from his mother, Djuka Mandic, and she made small household appliances in the free time she had while her son grew up. Teslas father, Milutin Tesla, was a writer and a priest and he wanted Tesla to become a priest when he grew up, But Teslas interests were firmly in the art of science. He studyied for four years at the Realschule, Karlstadt; the Polytechnic

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    Edison Vs Nikola Tesla

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    Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla: Who Was More Influential Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison made major advancements in the field of electrical currents. But which inventor made the greatest contributions to the industry? Tesla made inventions like the widely used alternating currents, radar technology, and other crazy ideas such as a death beam. In comparison, Edison was successful with using amazing direct currents, the useful phonograph and improved the stock ticker with his universal stock printer

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    Nikola Tesla is well known for his rivalry with Thomas Edison, but little do many know is he is a pioneer to research in electricity and robotics. Tesla was born in Serbia, and from there the world learned about his quirks and crazy inventions. Number One: He Fell in Love With a Pigeon. Yes, you read that correctly. Tesla was known to lure back pigeons to the hotel room he lived in, but one day he felt a connection between him and that special pigeon. He stated "I have been feeding pigeons, thousands

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    John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. stared that tesla’s thoughts and efforts were speculative and philosophical, but not include workable principles or methods for realizing such results, Nikola Tesla one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century died living in poverty and was forgotten by society. Nikola Tesla helped the mankind in the 20th century with his inventions in the electrical field. He left his mark with his unusual and great inventions, and his ability to visualize the end product

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    Nikola Tesla The life of an immigrant’s success will inspire many inventors, and will initiate the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Nikola Tesla was born on July 9 or 10 on the brink of midnight, 1856, in Smiljan, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). His parents were Serbian. He was often sick during his boyhood. Nikola moved with his family from Smiljan to Gospic, Croatia when he was seven. He attended the local schools. His family thought he would become a clergyman, like his father. But he

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    Humanities 9 27 October 2016 The War of Currents (Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla) Thomas Edison was not the true inventor and genius behind the light bulb because his inventions did not severely affect the world and was not the man that we think of today; Nikola Tesla on the other hand was a futuristic man who transformed the 1880’s and beyond like no other. The War of Currents was a rivalry that broke out during the late 1880’s when Nikola Tesla irately resigned from Edison’s company after resolving issues

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    Was Nikola Tesla the original finder of alternative energy? Was Tesla the first one to find a way to harness energy? Tesla was believed to be the father of the 20th century; Creator of technology. Nikola Tesla was born on July the 10th, 1856. He passed away on January 7th, 1943. In college Tesla thought that without spark brushes it could be possible to operate an electrical motor. But tesla's professor told him it is impossible, because a motor like that requires partial motion. But Tesla wants

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