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Birth of an inventor
Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla is born -
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Nikola Tesla
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First Job
Tesla went to work in Paris for teh Continental Edison Company -
The induction motor
In Straussburg Telsa constucted an induction motor after work -
Living in America
With only four cents in his pocket Tesla sailed to America. He found a job working under Thomas Edison. -
Making money
George Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent rights to Tesla's polyphase system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors. -
The Tesla coil
Tesla invents the Tesla coil which is widely used in televisions today -
Tesla's lab
Telsa establishes his own lab -
Terrestrial stationary waves
In Colorado Springs Tesla made his most important discovery - terrestrial stationary waves, which he used to light 200 lamps from 25 miles and created man made lightning -
Wireless broadcasting tower
Tesla returned to New York and began building his wireless broadcast tower, allowing communications throughout the world, but when his financiers stopped funding him, Tesla was greatly dissapointed -
Tesla's death
Nikola Tesla before the end of WWII dies -
Animal Symbol for Tesla
One symbol that represents Nikola Tesla is a bee. He is a bee because they are said to be " -
Object symbol for Tesla
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Works cited2
Hawthorne, Mark. "Tesla: Electricity's Mastermind." Hinduism Today. May/June 2001: 47-49. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 08 Dec 2011. -
Works citation
"Nikola Tesla." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 8 Dec. 2011. -
Works cited
Tesla, Nikola." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2011. Web. 8 Dec. 2011.
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