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Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, in present-day Croatia, on July 10, 1856.
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Tesla begins his work in Edison Machine Works. This is where many electrical motors were developed and sold.
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Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing was a company created by Tesla himself. Tesla's ideas for new types of motors and electrical transmission were developed here.
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This is one of Tesla's greatest inventions. The motor used alternating current which was not widely known about at the time.
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This was the start of Tesla's lifelong obsession:the wireless transmission of energy.
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Demonstration of alternating current generators at the Chicago World’s Fair, lighting thousands of incandescent light bulbs
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Tesla designed it to harness the energy of the Falls and convert it to electricity
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This was the first remote control device. Created by Tesla
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Tesla’s laboratory facility is completed. This tower was meant to wirelessy transmit messages
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The tower was destroyed after Tesla was sued so he could pay off debt.
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The City of Philadelphia awarded Nikola Tesla with the John Scott Medal for the invention of the rotating magnetic field and induction motor.
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Nikola Tesla Dies at age 86 in a hotel room in New York
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