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Birth
He was born at Smiljam, Croatia. He was born at the stroke of midnight on July 10, 1856, during an electrical storm. His father was Milutin Tesla and his mom Duka Mandici -
Interested in electricity
When he was three years old, while stroking his cat's back, the rubbing of his hand produced a shower of sparks, and he wanted to find out why. He asked his father and he explained that it was the same phenomenon that happened in the trees during a storm: electricity. From that moment until the day of his death, Nikola Tesla would dedicate his life to solving that mystery. -
Tesla was ill
At 17, Tesla suffered from cholera, and was close to death. He spent up to 9 months bedridden and was close to death on a few occasions. He recovered. -
Continental Company Edison
Tesla is in Paris to work for the Continental Edison Company for Thomas Edison to improve and design electrical equipment. -
Triple Alliance
The fragile system of international relations favored defensive-offensive alliances between countries, such as the Triple Alliance signed between Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany. -
Teslascope
The teslascope is a receiver with which communication with beings from outer space was intended. This was the most popular invention of Nikola Tesla. -
2nd industrial revolution
It is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that spread a few decades later to much of Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon America. -
Death
Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, in a hotel room in New York, at the age of 86, of a myocardial infarction. -
End of world war 2
In May 1945, the Second World War ended, leaving behind a socially and economically devastated continent.