Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
Posted on: Friday, 10 July 2009, 15:30 CDT
Today marks the birth of an inventor who revolutionized the field of science, especially in electricity and electromagnetism.
He was born in the small village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in modern-day Croatia 153 years ago.
Tesla is most famous for his invention of the radio. The original credit to the radio was given to Guglielmo Marconi, but in 1943, just months after Tesla had died, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed its decision and gave the radio patent credit to Tesla.
Tesla is said to have remarked to a friend, regarding the original decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, that "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents."
Thomas Edison, the inventor of direct current electric power, was an adversary to Tesla, who invented alternating current electric power.
In the New York Times on October 19 in 1931 Tesla was quoted to say, "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search… I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."
Tesla formed his own electric company in 1886 called Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing.
During this time he invented the Tesla coil, which is a type of resonant transformer circuit that he used in many of his inventions and discoveries.
Tesla obtained a minimum of 278 patents worldwide for his inventions. Some of his patents are not accounted for and sources have discovered some hidden in patent archives.
He died of heart failure in the New Yorker Hotel alone on January 7, 1943. Tesla's body was later cremated and his ashes were brought to Belgrade, Serbia where they still lay today in the Tesla Museum.
Source: redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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User Comments (27)
| 27. |
Posted by Miljan on 07/12/2009, 22:44 'Bocefus' -- If he is Serbian, they why dont you Americans ****ing admit it!... It does not realy matter where he was cremated, that does not prove a thing. |
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Posted by Aking1247 on 07/10/2009, 21:25 All great men are kooks. Sanity stifles genius. Sane men have nothing to offer the world. |
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Posted by bocefus on 07/10/2009, 20:27 "Tesla's body was later cremated and his ashes were brought to Belgrade, Serbia where they still lay today in the Tesla Museum." I think this is a good indicator that he was from fucking Serbia. |
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Posted by Nikola Tesla on 07/10/2009, 19:23 boo im the ghost of the nikola tesla and anyone who reads this will be cursed |
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Posted by Tesla on 07/10/2009, 18:14 By the way has anyone mentioned Tesla was Serbian? |
| 22. |
Posted by Free Energy on 07/10/2009, 18:13 Correction: "hid the free energy death ray" |
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Posted by Free Energy on 07/10/2009, 18:11 So I assume Tesla then hid the "free energy" device destroyed all the notes on it so it would not be used as evidence when the cops come? |
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Posted by Death Ray on 07/10/2009, 18:09 To: The Doc - Did you know that because Tesla was kicked out of the photo that Tesla killed Albert Einstein with one of his death rays! |
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Posted by The Doc on 07/10/2009, 18:01 Tesla was a kook. I remember in 1921, Albert Einstein went to vist Charles Steimetz at the RCA Transoceanic Station in New Brunswick, NJ. Well Tesla was there and kept trying to get into the photograph of Einstein and Steimetz. Albert finally had to tell Tesla to get lost. All Tesla did was try to get his name in the paper with things like "death rays" and "free energy". . |
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Posted by Brady on 07/10/2009, 17:55 You seem concerned that he doesn't get credit for being serbian there Miljan... I think it is safe to say he was Serbian. If we was born in Serbia. That could make him Serbian. Serbian he is. If he were to have been both born in Serbia and lived in Serbia. That, in fact, makes him Serbian. Why it doesn't mention that he's Serbian we'll never know but we do know that he is, in fact, Serbian. |
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Posted by chicago on 07/10/2009, 17:55 happy birthday ,you great Serb |
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Posted by Karadjordje on 07/10/2009, 17:48 Nikola Tesla is a Serbian Genius. He was born in the former Yugoslavia in an area which is currenlty called Croatia. [Yes, these details are relevant and are important for the world to remember] While we're at it in the PR department, And re-programming the one-siders, The other Genious Albert Einstein was married to Serbian woman. Yes, I have to concur that Einstein was genious but not as "beyond his time" as the Great Serb, Nikola Tesla. Happy Birthday! |
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Posted by chris on 07/10/2009, 17:46 welcome to google |
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Posted by diane on 07/10/2009, 17:43 good to know |
| 13. |
Posted by your mom on 07/10/2009, 17:30 lol |
| 12. |
Posted by Your Mom on 07/10/2009, 17:30 RAWR!!! lololololololol >.> |
| 11. |
Posted by whut on 07/10/2009, 17:13 cool |
| 10. |
Posted by Anti_feminist on 07/10/2009, 17:13 Why dont we see any female inventor like him?? |
| 9. |
Posted by whut on 07/10/2009, 17:13 cool |
| 8. |
Posted by utility on 07/10/2009, 17:05 Nice reading. Thanks for adding to the article. |
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Posted by Dghvfsftyuhffsfuhcf on 07/10/2009, 16:44 Hi whats up my peeps nikola tesla was awesome he invented the radio!! I don't know what I'd do without it I'd probably die |
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Posted by RoyceWegner on 07/10/2009, 16:28 He was a genious, and still is. |
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Posted by buddy on 07/10/2009, 16:15 happy birthday |
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Posted by Miljan on 07/10/2009, 16:11 Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia. Please follow the real truth and dont be afraid to say that he is in fact a Serbian! Why hide an important fact. |
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Posted by Miljan on 07/10/2009, 16:09 Adding to my comment; Not only was he from Serbia, but he is Serbian. Thank you. |
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Posted by Miljan on 07/10/2009, 16:08 I'am not sure why do you not mention that he was from Serbia? Something is wrong with this picture, and i kind of get the idea as to why you are hiding this important fact. |
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Posted by buddy on 07/10/2009, 16:03 happy birthday |
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