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**Nikola Tesla**
	Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943) Nikola Tesla (vers 1890).
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Name in native language	Никола Тесла ([nikoːla tesla]);
Date of birth	10 July 1856; Smiljan; Никола Тесла
Date of death	7 January 1943; New York City (New Yorker Hotel)
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	myocardial infarction;
Place of burial	Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia (44°48′18″N 20°28′15″E, Belgrade);
Country of citizenship	Austrian Empire (–1867); Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (1867–1918); United States (1891–);
Residence	Smiljan (1856–1870); Karlovac (1870–1873); Graz (1875–1878); Prague (1880–1881); Budapest (1881–1882); Paris (1882–1884); New York City (1884–); Colorado Springs (1899–);
Educated at	Karlovac Gymnasium (1870–1873); Graz University of Technology (1875–1878); Charles University;
Occupation	inventor; electrical engineer; physicist; electrician; mechanical engineer; futurist;
Employer	Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing (1886–); Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1888–);
Member of	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (permanent member, 1937–1943); Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (corresponding member, 1894–1937);
Field of work	electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; physicist; mechanics; inventor;
Native language	Serbo-Croatian;
Father	Milutin Tesla;
Mother	Đuka Mandic;
Sibling	Marica Tesla Kosanović;
Present in work	Firmament (Andrew Carnegie, Marie Curie, Karl Marx, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Jules Verne);
Award received	Edison Medal (1916); IEEE Fellow; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the White Eagle; Elliott Cresson Medal (1894); John Scott Award (1934); Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Sava; National Inventors Hall of Fame (1975); Honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb; Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion (1936); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Graz; Order of the Crown; Order of Prince Danilo I; doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1937); Order of the White Lion;
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English: Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, born to Serbian Orthodox parents in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was a pioneer in the development and design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Tesla

Blue Portrait of Nikola Tesla, the only painting for which Tesla posed.
Nikola Tesla, with Rudjer Boscovich's book "Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis". East Houston St., New York
Cover sheet Time magazine, Volume 18 Issue 3, July 20, 1931

In sculpture

Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
The Belgrade Airport
Monument in front of University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Bust at Manhattan, New York City.
Bust at Manhattan, New York City.
Geburtshaus, Smiljan, Kroatien
Niagara Falls, Ontario, CA
Niagara Falls, Ontario, CA

Family

Tesla's father Milutin Tesla - orthodox priest

Inventions

Tesla's 1887-1888 alternating current induction motor.
Tesla's 1887-1888 alternating current induction motor.
Columbia Lecture in New York, May 1891.
Tesla's Polyphase 500 HP AC generator at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Nikola Tesla's personal exhibit at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.
Mark Twain in Tesla's Lab.
Compact Tesla coil oscillator.
A massive mercury interrupter devised by Tesla.
A detector for radio-telegraphy invented by Tesla.
AC generator for exciting the Tesla detector.
The Tesla Steam Turbine.
One of his early Tesla coils with a conical secondary.
Conical Tesla coil oscillator (airbrushed).
Nikola Tesla's laboratory in Colorado Springs circa 1900.
In 1888, Tesla gained U.S. Patent 381.968 for a type of the rotating magnetic field
Turbine, Oct. 21, 1909, U.S. Patent 1,061,206, May 6, 1913.
Alternator of 10.000 Cycles p.s., Capacity 10 K.W., Which Was Employed by Nikola Tesla in His First Demonstrations of High Frequency Phenomena Before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College, May 20, 1891.

Miscellaneous

“Nikola Tesla street”, Zagreb, Croatia.
Tesla Street located in Shoreham, Long Island, NY where Nikola Tesla's lab/museum is located.
No 2, “Nikola Tesla street”, Poreč, Croatia.
Passport of Nikola Tesla from 1883, page 1