Dr. Nikola Tesla

Abstract

NIKOLA TESLA, who died on January 7, was born in 1857 at Smiljan in Croatia. His father, a Serb, was a clergyman of the Greek Church ; his mother is remembered as very inventive and is credited with making improvements in churns, looms and other rural machinery. Nikola, while at school, began to make electrical experiments, and finished his formal education in the engineering faculty of the Graz Polytechnic School. After a period in the Government telegraph department at Budapest, he joined the Edison concern in Paris and went to the United States about 1883. Here he worked under Edison for a time, but soon set up his own firm for the manufacture of arc lighting plant.