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Nikola Tesla

1856 - 1943

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Nikola Tesla (; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikola Tesla is the 2nd most popular inventor, the most popular biography from Croatia and the most popular Croatian Inventor.

Nikola Tesla is most famous for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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Among inventors, Nikola Tesla ranks 2 out of 426. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci. After him are Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Karl Benz, Elon Musk, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, Henry Ford, Louis Braille, and Charles Babbage.

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Among people born in 1856, Nikola Tesla ranks 1. After him are Sigmund Freud, J. J. Thomson, George Bernard Shaw, Philippe Pétain, Woodrow Wilson, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Louis Sullivan, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, and Emil Kraepelin. Among people deceased in 1943, Nikola Tesla ranks 1. After him are David Hilbert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pieter Zeeman, Karl Landsteiner, George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Isoroku Yamamoto, Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, and Boris III of Bulgaria.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Nikola Tesla ranks 1 out of 700. After him are Josip Broz Tito (1892), Diocletian (244), Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (-63), Rüstem Pasha (1500), Franjo Tuđman (1922), Valens (328), Leopold Ružička (1887), János Kádár (1912), Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711), Pope John IV (600), and Pope Caius (250).

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Among inventors born in Croatia, Nikola Tesla ranks 1. After him are Fausto Veranzio (1551), Josip Belušić (1847), and Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (1897).

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