Nikola Tesla

Here's a time line of Nikola Tesla's life:

• 1856 - Nikola Tesla was born on July 10 in Smiljan, a small village in the region of Croatia which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1875 - Tesla began his engineering education at Graz University of Technology in Austria, but later moved to Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague.
• 1881 - Tesla moved to Budapest, Hungary, where he worked as a telephone engineer for a telegraph company.
• 1884 - Tesla arrived in the United States and began working for Thomas Edison in New York City. However, differences of opinion between them led Tesla to leave his job a year later.
• 1887 - Tesla established his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, where he focused on research and development in the field of electrical power.
• 1888 - Tesla invented the alternating current induction motor, which allowed energy transfer without wires. He also developed the three-phase electric motor and an efficient electrical power system.
• 1891 - Tesla patented his alternating current power distribution system, which became the basis for modern power generation.
• 1893 - He introduced the concept of the Wardenclyffe Tower, an ambitious project to transmit electrical energy wirelessly through the earth. However, the project failed due to lack of funding.
• 1901 - Tesla successfully transmitted radio signals from New York to Cornwall, England, demonstrating the potential for long-distance wireless communication.
• 1915 - After deep financial difficulties, Tesla canceled his experiments and lived a relatively isolated life in New York City.
• 1943 - Tesla passed away on January 7 in New York City at the age of 86.