Friday, 10 July 2009

Nikola Tesla

Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday. Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer.

Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia.

He was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Tesla is often described as an important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who 'shed light over the face of Earth.'

Nikola Tesla is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

2 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

In Honor of Tesla's birthday i will be using Alternating Current at some point in the day to power something in my house.

Chad Cloman said...

To really honor Tesla, you'd be using a wireless power source.