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Born
Nikola Tesla is born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire. (Modern day Croatia) -
Tesla attends college
Tesla attends the Austrian Polytechnic School in Graz on a Military scholarship. -
Alternating Current
Tesla thinks of a diagram for a alternating current motor. -
Tesla shows AC motor
Tesla shows his prototype AC motor -
Arrives in the US
Tesla arrives in the United States of America. -
Tesla Electric Light Company
With the help of investors Tesla creates Tesla Electric Light Company -
Tesla speech to the AIEE
Tesla gives a speech about Alternating Current to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. -
Tesla discovers wireless frequencies
Tesla illuminates a vacuum tube wirelessly. -
Wardenclyffe Tower
Tesla's starts building his dream of a global wireless system -
Bankrupt
After countless failed projects Nikola Tesla declares Bankruptcy -
Wardenclyffe Tower Taken Down
The failed project of Wardenclyffe Tower is taken down -
Tesla Dies
Nikola Tesla dies at age 86 in New York
