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Early Beginnings
"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000
ways that won't work" - Nikola Tesla
Figure 2:
Smiljan Croatia, which was then part of
Austria-Hungary
Source: http://www.groovylabinabox.com/nikola-tesla-imagining-the-future/
Source: http://www.groovylabinabox.com/nikola-tesla-imagining-the-future/
- The Yugoslav-American Scientist Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in Smiljan in a poor family in the Austria-Hungary border province of modern day Croation Republic. Tesla's father Milutin was an Orthodox priest, and his mother Georgina Mandic was uneducated but very intelligent woman.
- From an early age he could memorize entire books and store logarithmic tables in his brain.
- Studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria where he was one of the most intelligent students.
- At age 29, he sailed to America, where he spent the rest of his life and invented the most important fundamentals that changed today's world