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1856 Jul 10
Nikola Tesla Is Born

1875 Tesla Enrolls At Austrian Polytechnic

1882
Nikola Tesla begins working for Continental Edison

1882
Tesla Identifies Magnetic Induction Field Principle

1884 Jun 6 Tesla arrives in the United States

1885 Nikola Tesla quits working for Edison

1886 Nikola Tesla forms Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company

1887 War of Currents era begins

1887 Apr Nikola Tesla begins experimenting with X-Rays

1888 May 16 Tesla Delivers Lecture: A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers
1891 Nikola Tesla Patents the Tesla Coil
1891 Jul 30 Nikola Tesla becomes a citizen of the United States

1893 Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse power the World's Columbian Exposition

1899 Tesla moves to research facility in Colorado Springs

1901 Construction begins on Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower

1913 Tesla Patents Bladeless Turbine

1915 Tesla and Edison ignored by Nobel Prize committee

1915 Aug 4 Tesla Files Lawsuit Against Guglielmo Marconi

1934 Jul 10 The New York Times publicizes Nikola Tesla's particle Beam research

1943 Jan 7 Nikola Tesla Dies

 
 
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