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Tesla's Birth
Tesla is born during a lightning storm in Smiljan, Austrian Empire at the stroke of midnight. His mother said "He'll be a child of light." -
Tesla's brother dies
Tesla's brother dies from falling off a horse or falling down the church steps. -
Tesla contracts cholera
Tesla gets a case of cholera, a disease that causes severe diarrhea, that causes him to be near death many times and bedridden for nine months. His father says that if he survives he can go to an engineering school. -
Tesla eludes army service
Tesla went into hiding in the mountains to recover from cholera and avoid mandatory army service. -
Tesla attends Austrian Polytechnic
As his father promised, Tesla attended the Polytechnic but was kicked out in his third year after coming into conflict with his teachers. -
Tesla suffers mental breakdown and has ac epiphany.
Tesla has a serious brain malfunction but survives and while he is recovering he has a hallucination of an ac motor that eventually led to the invention of it. -
Tesla starts Tesla Electric Light Company
He starts the short lived company but is kicked out with some stock certificates. -
Discovers wireless power
Tesla discovered wireless power after a lot of work. -
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Tesla's lectures
Tesla lectures in numerous cities about electricity. -
Tesla's lab burns
Tesla's lab burns down and he loses everything. -
Wardenclyffe testing begins
Tesla begins his Wardenclyffe hill project. -
Tesla tests turbines
He is testing and adjusting many steam turbines. -
John dies
Tesla's biggest investor, John Jacob Astor, dies on the Titanic. -
Tesla declares bankruptcy
Tesla's company fails and goes bankrupt. -
Tesla receives Edison Medal
Tesla receives the medal for his pioneering in electricity. -
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Tesla skips hotels
Tesla, now a very poor man, stays at hotels and moves many times because he couldn't pay for his stay. -
Tesla writes autobiography
Tesla, believing that he had done his work, writes his autobiography. -
Tesla's pigeon dies
Tesla favorite pigeon flies in to his window and Tesla claims she was trying to tell him she was dying. From her eyes came a blinding light and the she died at the same time that something came out of Tesla's life so he knew he was finished. -
Stock market crashes
The stock market crashes into the great and Tesla loses the little money he has left. -
Tesla dies
Tesla dies quietly and alone in his hotel room because of a blood clot which caused his heart to stop.
