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Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla is born
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Tesla went to work in Paris for teh Continental Edison Company
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In Straussburg Telsa constucted an induction motor after work
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With only four cents in his pocket Tesla sailed to America. He found a job working under Thomas Edison.
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George Westinghouse of Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent rights to Tesla's polyphase system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors.
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Tesla invents the Tesla coil which is widely used in televisions today
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Telsa establishes his own lab
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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
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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
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Nikola Tesla before the end of WWII dies
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One symbol that represents Nikola Tesla is a bee. He is a bee because they are said to be "
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