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Nikola Tesla was born
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Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla was inspired by his math teacher Martin Seculic
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Nikola bedridden 9 months from Cholera
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Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing was created
Tesla partnered with two businessmen in 1886, Robert Lane and Benjamin Vail -
First induction motor powered by AC
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Tesla's polyphase induction motor is liscensed to Westinghouse
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Tesla becomes a naturalized US citizen
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is powered with alternating current
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First remotely controlled boat using radio waves
Tesla creates a boat that utilizes radio waves to be remotely controlled. it is demonstrated at MAdison Square Garden -
patent for the earliest idea of a tiltrotor aircraft
Tesla gets his last patent for a verticle take off biplane -
Tesla announces his idea for a "Death Ray"
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Tesla dies of Coronary Thrombosis
at the age of 86, Tesla died alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel