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Nikola Tesla
Birth at
10 July 1856
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian). Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856, Smilyany, Austria-Hungary, now in Croatia - January 7, 1943, New York, USA) - a brilliant physicist, engineer, inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering. Serb by nationality. Born and raised in Austria-Hungary, he worked mainly in France and the United States in the following years. He received American citizenship in 1891. He is widely known for his scientific and revolutionary contribution to the study of the properties of electricity
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian). Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856, Smilyany, Austria-Hungary, now in Croatia - January 7, 1943, New York, USA) - a brilliant physicist, engineer, inventor in the field of electrical and radio engineering. Serb by nationality. Born and raised in Austria-Hungary, he worked mainly in France and the United States in the following years. He received American citizenship in 1891.
He is widely known for his scientific and revolutionary contribution to the study of the properties of electricity and magnetism in the late XIX - early XX centuries. Tesla’s patents and theoretical works formed the basis for modern alternating current devices, multiphase systems and electric motors, which made it possible to make the second stage of the industrial revolution.
The name of Tesla is the unit of measurement of the density of magnetic flux (magnetic induction). Among the awards of the scientist are medals of E. Cresson, J. Scott, T. Edison.
Contemporaries-biographers considered Tesla “the man who invented the XX century” and “the holy protector” of modern electricity. After the radio demonstration and victory in the "Wars of Currents" Tesla received widespread recognition as an outstanding electrical engineer. Tesla’s early work paved the way for modern electrical engineering, and his early discoveries were of innovative significance. In the United States, Tesla’s fame could compete with any inventor or scientist in history or popular culture.
Minister of Culture and Ecology of the Republic of Serbia calls Nikola Tesla one of the greatest scientists in the history of the world. Branko Kovacevic, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, claims that Nikola Tesla knew how science would develop.