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Nichola Tesla is born july 10 1856.
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Teslas family moves to Gospic for the good schools.
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Tesla graduates from high school in Karlovac.
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Teslas enters college in graz austria.
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In 1880 tesla studies for a time in prague; takes a job in budapest the following year.
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Invents the rotating magnetic field and begins working for the Edison continental copany in Paris.
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Comes to the United States and works for Thomas Edison.
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Begins making his first induction motors; sells the patents on his AC motors and power generation to George Westinghouse the folowing year.
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Sends wireless transmission by raido; Westinghouse installs teslas AC power system at the worlds columbian exhibition in Chicago.
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Sees operation of his AC hydroelectric power plant; experiments with X-rays.
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Conducts experiments in Colorado springs on wireless transmission of electricity.
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Begins constrution of transmitter at wardenclyffe on long island, New York.
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Forms new company to make bladless turbines.
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Sues Guglielmo Marconi over the use of his raido patents; gives first public description of "death ray".
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Receives Edison metel.
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Receives last patent for flying machine that combines features of a helicopter and a plane.
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Dicusses posible new defensive weapon called the charged pariticle beam.
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Dies jan. 7 in his rooms at the hotel new yorker.
