Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in Smiljan, in present-day Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla, was a clergyman, and his mother, Djuka, made her own tools to simplify household chores. Tesla began inventing and repairing devices at a young age.

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Tesla began primary school in Gospić and completed his secondary education in Karlovac. He pursued higher education in electrical and mechanical engineering at Graz and Prague.

After working on electrical systems in Europe, Tesla moved to the United States and joined Thomas Edison’s company. After failing to receive the promised payment, he left the company and focused on his own inventions.

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Tesla invented the alternating current motor based on the concept of a rotating magnetic field. This motor was far more efficient at converting electricity into mechanical energy and enabled the transmission of electrical power over long distances.

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Tesla obtained a patent for the radio in 1900. Years after Guglielmo Marconi received the 1909 Nobel Prize, the United States Supreme Court in 1943 recognized Tesla’s patent as the original for the radio.

Tesla died on 7 January 1943 in New York. He made significant contributions to the development of electric motors, alternating current, wireless energy, radio, and numerous electrical devices. In the SI system of units, the unit of magnetic flux density is named the Tesla.