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Birth
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in what is now Smiljan, Croatia.His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household appliances. -
school 1862
His family moved to Gospić in 1862. Tesla went to school in Karlovac. He finished a four-year term in the span of three years -
University
Tesla studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1873, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. -
Polytechnic school
In 1875 Tesla Enrolls at the Polytechnic school Tesla began his studies in mechanical and electrical engineering -
First Job
In 1881, He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest. -
Edison Company
In 1882 Tesla moved to Paris, to work as an engineer for the Continental Edison Company, designing improvements to electric equipment brought overseas from Edison's ideas. -
Prototype of the induction motor
In 1883, he privately built a prototype of the induction motor and ran it successfully. -
Hired by the industrialist George Westinghouse
In 1888, he was hired by the industrialist George Westinghouse, who was impressed by his idea for the polyphase system, to develop the alternating current electric supply system. Ultimately, he won the war of currents with Edison’s DC system by demonstrating the marvels of electric appliances via alternating current. -
Laboratory in New York
• Soon he established his own laboratory and invested his time and energy on numerous experiments including the ‘Tesla Coil’, carbon button lamp, on the power of electrical resonance, and on various types of lighting. -
Fire in Manhathan
By a fire that nearly burned six floors, Nikola Tesla, lost all the apparatus with which he has been conducting his professional experiments. a caretaker had left a jet of gas burning from top to bottom the building was saturated with machine oils, used to cut steam pipes, and this ignited very quickly. -
Laboratory in Colorado Springs
In 1899, he moved to Colorado Springs where he established his laboratory for creating a wireless global energy transmission system. He experimented on man-made lightning for sharing information and providing free electricity throughout the world wirelessly. -
telecommunications and mechanical energy
In 1900, he began his work on establishing the trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility in Wardenclyffe, near Shoreham, Long Island. He performed many experiments in the facility but due to shortage of funds, he was forced to sell it around the time of World War I.
Later in life, he announced a method of transmitting mechanical energy with minimal loss over any terrestrial distance and a method of accurately determining the location of underground mineral deposits. -
R.I.P
In 1943, he was dubbed as the “the father of the radio” for his significant contributions to the development of radio.
He died of unknown causes on January 7, 1943 in a hotel room in the New York City. It was later confirmed from examining that he died of coronary thrombosis.
