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He was born in a small village in Smiljan.
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During his sophmore year, his dad had a stroke and died. After this he was forced to drop out of school.
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During working at a telphone company he suffers a nervous breakdown.
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Getting away from war, he arrives in New York at age 28 with only four cents in his pockets!
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However the bankers, Robert Lane and B. A. Vail, refuse to fund Tesla's AC Motor, and they fire Tesla. Tesla is forced to work as a manual laborer to live.
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This is the world's first brush-less AC motor. Tesla files worldwide patents.
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Tesla lights evacuated tubes with no wires.
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Tesla builds his own experimental laboratory at 46 East Houston Street, in New York City.
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Tesla terms the effect "radiant energy" of an invisible kind.
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Tesla's laboratory is completely destroyed by fire, ruining the work of half a lifetime.
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Basically the same thing that's used in today's internal combustion engines.
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Refuses to provide any additional funding after Tesla shares his true plans for using Wardenclyffe for Wireless Power Transmission.
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Tesla is honored by being on the cover of Time Magazine, and receives congratulations from more than 70 pioneers in science and engineering including Einstein.
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Died in room 3327 at the Hotel New Yorker at age 87.
