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He was born in a vilage close in Austrian empire borderw
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This year Nicola's brother Daniel was killed in a riding accident
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He was study engineering and physics without getting the degree
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He worked in the early 1880s in telefony at Thomas Edison
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In 1884 he become a american Citizen
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In the 1890s Tesla invented electric oscillators, meters, improved lights and the high-voltage transformer known as the Tesla coil. He also experimented with X-rays, gave short-range demonstrations of radio communication two years before Guglielmo Marconi and piloted a radio-controlled boat around a pool in Madison Square Garden
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Nicola andWestinghouse lit the 1891 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and partnered with General Electric to install AC generators at Niagara Falls, creating the first modern power station.
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In 1895 Nicola's lab was burned
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Tesla died in his room on January 7, 1943. Later that year the U.S. Supreme Court voided four of Marconi’s key patents, belatedly acknowledging Tesla’s innovations in radio. The AC system he championed and improved remains the global standard for power transmission.