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