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Nikola Tesla's Birth
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Tesla Begins his Education
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Tesla Contracts Cholera
Nine months after going to Gospic, Tesla contracts Cholera. During this time, he had multiple near death experiences. Tesla's father promises him while he is on his death-bed once more, that if he lives, he would send him to an engineering school. Tesla survives. (Picture Shown: A Photograph of the Cholera virus) -
Tesla Escapes the Army
Tesla moves to a different town to recover from cholera, thus alluding the compulsory three-year service. Tesla once said about this event, ""For most of this term I roamed in the mountains, loaded with a hunter's outfit and a bundle of books, and this contact with nature made me stronger in body as well as in mind." -
Tesla Attends the Austrian Polytechnic School in Graz
Tesla enrolls in the school with a Military Board scholarship. In his first year, he makes high grades, and is shown to never have missed a lecture. In his second year, he loses his scholarship and supposedly took up gambling. In his third year, Tesla stopped attending lectures and eventually dropped out. (Picture Shown: Graz, Hungary) -
Tesla's Idea for Alternate Current Power Begins to Form
In his recollection of the event, Tesla says he was in Varosliget City Park of Budapest with a friend when the idea came to him in a vision. He proceeded to draw the idea for a motor with a stick in the sand. (Picture Shown: Varosliget City Park in Budapest) -
Tesla Arrives in New York
In the spring, Tesla gathered his funds and caught the next boat to America. On June 6th, he arrived for the first time on American soil. The next day, he meets Thomas Edison and starts working for him. (Picture Shown: The Saturnia, the ship Tesla supposedly arrived on.) -
Tesla Quits Working for Edison
At a point during working for Edison, Edison promises Tesla that he will give him $50,000 if he can improve Edison's DC dynamo. Once Tesla does and asks for the money, Edison is quoted saying, "You don't understand our American humor." Wounded, Tesla resigns. (Picture Shown: An Edison dynamo from the Pearl St. Station)
