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BIRTH
Nikola Tesla was born in 1857 at Smilgan, Croatia. -
Tesla met Charles Batchellor
In 1884, Tesla met Charles Batchellor in Paris, charles thinks that Tesla is a brilliant scientist and that he will need to go to America so Nikola can work together with Edison -
The arrive in America / Working with Edison
Tesla arrived in America and the next day he was working with the american inventor. -
Tesla left Edison
In the year Tesla worked for Edison, he designed twenty four dyanmos and automat C Controls. But Edison would not accept his theories on alternating current. In 1885 Tesla left Edison. Unable to find work. -
Tesla meets A.K. Brown
In April, 1887, Nikola Tesla met A.K. Brown, who recognized his genius and helped finance his work, thanks to that he could open his own laboratoy. -
The talk about alternating current.
In may, 1887, Tesla presented the alternating current at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in New York. -
After the talk
Shortly after his talk, Westinghouse proposed to Tesla one million dollars and a royalty of one dollar per horsepower for his patents. Tesla accepted. -
Light without wires
Tesla was experimenting further with electricity and in 1890 he created the light without wires. -
Fundamentals of Radio
Tesla worked on the funamentals of radio, and in 1991 he presented the wireless systems -
His Lab caught fire
Tesla was working hard and devised a method of harnessing power from Niagara Falls, later hedesigned the Niagara Power Plant but misfortune struck, on the night of march 13, 1895, his laboratory caught fire lossing all his experiments and records. -
IEEE Edison Medal
In spite of many set.backs, Tesla achieved fame in the scientific world, and in 1936 he received the IEEE Edison Medal -
Dead
Tesla died at eighty-six on January 7, 1943, in spite of the hardships that plagued his life, Nikola Tesla continued his scientific investigations which were so far ahead of hist time.
