Nikola Tesla

(1856/07/10 - 1943/01/07)
Serbian engineer and inventor
“Every living being is an engine adapted to the
wheels of the universe”
 Early life and studies
▪ Tesla was born in Smiljan, in the ▪ After graduating in 1873,
Austro-Hungarian Empire, present-day he returned to his
Croatia, on July 10, 1856. He was one hometown, where shortly
of five children. after his arrival he
contracted cholera.
▪ In 1861, he attended elementary
school in Smiljan, where he studied
German, arithmetic and religion. ▪ In 1875 he enrolled on a
scholarship at the Polytechnic
▪ In 1870, he moved to School in Graz (Austria). During
Karlovac, Croatia, to the first year he did not miss any
attend the Royal classes and obtained the best
Gymnasium in Gospic,
where he was influenced possible grades.
by his mathematics
teacher Martin Sekulic. ▪ He never graduated from
university.
 Adult life and Inventions
▪ In 1881, he moved to Budapest to
work for Ferenc Puskas where he
became chief electrician and later
engineer of the country's first
telephone system.
▪ In June 1884, he moved to New York City
where he was hired by Thomas Edison to
work at the Edison Machine Works
designing motors and generators but left
to devote himself exclusively to
experimental research and invention.
▪ In 1886, he founded his own company,
Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing.
Investors disagreed with his plans for
the development of an alternating
current motor, relieving him of his
position at the company.
▪ During 1888, his first practical system
design for generating and transmitting
alternating current for electric power
systems took place. He developed the
alternating current induction motor.
▪ In 1893, Nikola Tesla ▪ Some inventions were:
designed a wireless • The tesla coil
communication system and • Amplified transmitter
built an antenna more than 30 • Worldwide wireless system
meters high, the Wardencliff • Improved electrical machines
Tower, with which he intended • Alternating current
to transmit electrical energy • Neon lights
without wires, with the same • X-ray
operating principle as radio. • Induction motor
• Radio
▪ He patented more than 700
• Remote control
inventions such as an electric
submarine in 1898 and a small
ship that would capture energy
emitted by the Wardencliff Tower
to be stored in its batteries.
▪ Nikola Tesla died of an acute myocardial
infarction on January 7, 1943, in room
3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, New York
City (USA). His body was found after
ignoring the "do not disturb" sign he
had posted on the door two days earlier.
Data

▪ Name: Nek Castro Palma

▪ Date: Friday, December 3, 2021
▪ School: Cecyte xochimilco
▪ Class: English IV
▪ Proyect: Bibliography
▪ Group:5AMT
Why did I do the biography of Nikola Tesla?

▪ I made the biography of Nikola Tesla because he is a person that I

admire very much since his invention revolutionized the world and
boosted our evolution as a human species, besides his inventions we
use them daily without realizing that many people do not know to
whom these innovations belong, we owe the merit to this person.