Nikola tesla

Nikola Tesla

By Harrison Reed

  • Nikola Tesla was born

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    Nikola Tesla

  • Nikola Tesla was inspired by his math teacher Martin Seculic

  • Nikola bedridden 9 months from Cholera

    His father promised to send him to the best engineering school.

  • Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing was created

    Tesla partnered with two businessmen in 1886, Robert Lane and Benjamin Vail

  • First induction motor powered by AC

  • Tesla's polyphase induction motor is liscensed to Westinghouse

  • Tesla becomes a naturalized US citizen

  • World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is powered with alternating current

  • First remotely controlled boat using radio waves

    Tesla creates a boat that utilizes radio waves to be remotely controlled. it is demonstrated at MAdison Square Garden

  • patent for the earliest idea of a tiltrotor aircraft

    Tesla gets his last patent for a verticle take off biplane

  • Tesla announces his idea for a "Death Ray"

  • Tesla dies of Coronary Thrombosis

    at the age of 86, Tesla died alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel