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Nicola Tesla was an Istro-Romanian. His real name was Nicolae Teslea. His father was the Orthodox priest Milutin Teslea. The original name of the family was Draghici (a name common also in Romania) but changed with the nicname "Teslea", which in both Istro-Romanian and Romanian means bass (the carpenter's tool) and in Serbian means nothing. His family was one of carpenters.
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Why did Nikola Tesla drop out of school on the last year?
he was depressed
What is the address of Nikola Tesla?
His last address was known to be a room in the New Yorkers hotel at the time of his death.
What were Nikola Tesla's last words?
"Let the future tell the truth, and Evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs. The future, for which I have really worked, is mine"
When did Nikola Tesla meet Thomas Edison?
Nikola Tesla was referred to Edison by a mutual friend. Tesla emigrated to New York and gave a recommendation letter to Edison who hired him to help develop DC power systems. Their partnership did not last long. Instead of working on DC power as Edison challenged him, Tesla chose to improve Faraday's AC power. Edison would not listen to Tesla's arguments for AC power, and Tesla quit. George Westinghouse then bought Tesla's AC patents, and directly challenged Edison in the current wars which Westinhouse eventually won. Ironically, many devices used today are DC (computers, cell phones, LED lights, etc.) as Edison predicted, and converters have to be used to step down from AC back to DC.
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Nikola Tesla's Youngest Descendant, Serbian Refugee - Jun 25th, 2009 | By De-Construct.net | In Croatia, Featured Articles, Weekend - Danijela Tesla, great inventor's youngest descendant, was only 5-years-old when she was forced to flee Croatia, along with all the Serbs from Krajina - Her name is Danijela Tesla, she is 18-years-old and lives in Smederevo, Serbian town near Belgrade. She is the youngest descendant of the "man who invented 20th century", Serbian-born American immigrant Nikola Tesla. - Ever since the world's greatest inventor - also regarded as "the greatest genius" that ever lived - closed his eyes in New York hotel on 7 January 1943, Tesla's name and revolutionary inventions have been the subject of vicious contention between the governments, state officials and institutions, nations and corporations. - Recently, Walt Disney studio which wants to create a Tesla character for one sequence of their new animated film, had to ask Belgrade Nikola Tesla Museum - the only legal copyright owner of Tesla's name and work - for permission. On the other hand, Croat designer Dragica Mihajlovic believes it is her God-given right to claim personal ownership of "all of Tesla's intellectual-property rights", an issue Tesla Museum intends to clear up. - Son of Serbian Orthodox priest Fr. Milutin Tesla and Đuka Mandić (herself a daughter of Serbian Orthodox priest, Fr. Nikola Mandić), Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in Serbian Krajina (also known as Military Frontier - Vojna Krajina) in Austro-Hungary, today's Croatia, which was populated with Serbian soldiers and their families by the Hapsburg Monarchy in 16th century, along the border with Ottoman Empire, as the last line of Western defense against the Turks. - Tesla, who was proud of his Serbian nationality and Orthodox heritage, said his "most exiting thought" in the struggle to achieve his ideals "on behalf of the whole of humanity," was the fact "that it is a deed of a Serb". - It is not surprising that Croats, who generally feel no shame over misappropriating the great inventor's name and ethnic roots, see no contradiction in claiming Nikola Tesla as their own on the one hand and, on the other, committing monstrous genocides twice in 20th century against Tesla's kith and kin - the Serbian population in Krajina. - The world can only thank divine providence Nikola Tesla was in United States and not in Serbian Krajina during WWII, at the time Croatia was a fascist state ruled by demented Ustasha butchers, when all of Krajina - including village Smiljan, Tesla's birthplace - was drowned in Serbian blood, and 750,000 Serbs in Croatia were mutilated and slaughtered in Jasenovac, a complex of grisly Croat death camps. - Tesla's descendants are a living proof of Croat hypocrisy and shamelessness, among them Danijela, who was only 5-years-old when Croat army under Franjo Tudjman launched another pogrom on Krajina Serbs, codenamed operation "Storm" (Oluja), in 1995. Without a father who passed away two years before, Danijela was forced to flee her village Raduč, where all the Teslas come from, with her mother Milka and more than 250,000 other Krajina Serbs. Their family house was dynamited and torched by the raging Croat army, but Danijela Tesla managed to reach Serbia. - "My father Dane is Nikola Tesla's grand-grandchild - Nikola Tesla's first cousin is the grand-grandfather of my father," Danijela explains quietly, and only if asked. - She carries her name and heritage silently and unassumingly, along with the war scars, refugee status and life-long struggle for survival. Her mother works in Italy as a construction worker, to support herself and pay for her daughter's education. - "She works at men's jobs, painting, laying ceramic tiles, cementing… She was never doing that before, but she had to learn…," Danijela said. - Although a talented artist, Danijela has decided to study economy since, as she puts it, "the life has taught me I can't live off the love for art". - She says she looks like her father, but the physical resemblance to her glorious ancestor is uncanny - the same gentle facial contours, same dreamy, introspective gaze, and refined, slender figure. - "My dad wrote two books. Tesla about Tesla was published in 1968, and Josip Broz Tito was among those who attended the promotion in Smiljan [in Serbian Krajina]. His second book, From Raduč to New York, was written in 1980," Danijela said. - "I was in the seventh grade when I wrote an essay about Nikola Tesla where, in addition to all the data, I also included the family tree. It shows that my father Dane was Nikola's grand-grandchild or, rather, that Nikola's first cousin was my father's grand-grandfather. My friends never realized my last name was connected to Nikola Tesla, and I never boasted about my heritage. I would only tell about it if someone asked," Danijela told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti. - Although the youngest, Danijela is not the last of Teslas. Her father had three brothers, all of them Tesla's descendants from Raduč in Serbian Krajina and all presently living in Serbia - two in Belgrade and one in Leskovac. - After the Yugoslav civil war has ended, Milka Tesla submitted a request to Croat authorities for rebuilding of their destroyed family house in Raduč. When Milka and Danijela went to Zagreb to collect the necessary documents, Tesla's kin were subjected to hostility and maltreatment, and police interrogation "like we were some criminals". Even the Helsinki Board for Human Rights was forced to intervene in their defense - another nasty episode that speaks volumes about the Croat rights to Tesla's name and legacy.
Why did Nikola Tesla drop out of school on the last year?
he was depressed
What is the address of Nikola Tesla?
His last address was known to be a room in the New Yorkers hotel at the time of his death.
Where in New York did Nikola Tesla live?
He did live most of his life and the last address was the New Yorker hotel.
What are Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's similarity's?
Tesla and Edison went to history as inventors yet both had a different perseption in their work. Today's electricity is based in the invention of Nikola Tesla because alternate current is better than direct current. Edison got the patent on direct current engine wchich he could not make it work properly. Tesla fixed that when he was working for him. That is the last thing he did for him.
How did Nikola Tesla earn his income?
Tesla made his income by selling his patents. By the age of 40 he was allready a millonary. In his last day he spend all his income and died pennyless at 86 years old.
What was the last name of Thomas Edison's main opponent?
That was Nikola Tesla. He and Edison disagreed on whether long-distance power transmission should be direct current (DC) as Edison wanted, or alternating current (AC) as Tesla wanted. For some very reasonable and practical reasons, Tesla won out, and today our power is transmitted and used as AC.
What were Nikola Tesla's last words?
"Let the future tell the truth, and Evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs. The future, for which I have really worked, is mine"
What did Nikola Tesla do for living?
Nikola Tesla symbolizes a unifying force and inspiration for all nations in the name of peace and science. He was a true visionary far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific development. New York State and many other states in the USA proclaimed July 10, Tesla's birthday Nikola Tesla Day. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
When did Nikola Tesla meet Thomas Edison?
Nikola Tesla was referred to Edison by a mutual friend. Tesla emigrated to New York and gave a recommendation letter to Edison who hired him to help develop DC power systems. Their partnership did not last long. Instead of working on DC power as Edison challenged him, Tesla chose to improve Faraday's AC power. Edison would not listen to Tesla's arguments for AC power, and Tesla quit. George Westinghouse then bought Tesla's AC patents, and directly challenged Edison in the current wars which Westinhouse eventually won. Ironically, many devices used today are DC (computers, cell phones, LED lights, etc.) as Edison predicted, and converters have to be used to step down from AC back to DC.
Did Nikola Tesla become rich?
Tesla was completely penniless for the last couple decades of his life. He was far more interested in advancing science and technology than making money. For example, in order to make it possible for George Westinghouse to continue to get financial backing for an AC electrical distribution system, Tesla agreed to forego patent payments that were, by all legal rights, his own.
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First in the last last in the first your in the middle guess what you are?
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