Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Austria-Hungary and was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison but later worked with George Westinghouse, where he helped develop AC power systems. Some of his notable inventions and contributions included the induction motor and developing the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls. He spent his later years conducting experiments in wireless telegraphy and developing ideas for particle beams and radio-controlled devices. Tesla died in 1943 in New York City.

1. Nikola Tesla

2.  Born July 10th, 1856
 Smiljan, Austria (now Croatia)

3.  Father: Rev. Milutin Tesla
 Mother: Duka Mandic
 Sisters: Milka, Angelina and Marica Tesla

4.  1875 starts technical schooling
in Graz, Austria for three years
 Quits school and moves to
Maribor, Slovenia
 Starts Charles-Ferdinand
University in Prague in 1880
 Fell ill

5.  Moves to Budapest, Hungary, to work under
Tivadar Puskás in a telegraph company
 Becomes chief electrician to the company
 Develops first loud speaker
 Moves to Paris, France to work for the
Continental Edison Company, helping to
resolve problems with their DC dynamos
 Goes back to his mothers birthplace after he
learns of her death

6.  6 June 1884 first arrived in the US in New York City
 Edison hires Tesla to work for his Edison Machine
Works
 Offered 1.1 million dollars if he redesigned Edison's
inefficient motor and generators
 Quits working for Edison and begins to dig ditches

7.  1886, Tesla forms Tesla Electric Light &
Manufacturing
 Initial financial investors relieve Tesla of
his duties at the company
 1886 to 1887 works as a common
laborer to raise capital for his next
project

8.  1880 constructs alternating current induction motor and the
Tesla coil
 Begins working with George Westinghouse at Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh labs
 Experiments with X-rays, mechanical resonance, radio
technology, radio controlling of a boat model

9.  AC current was used to
illuminate the exhibition

10.  Wins the contract to light
Niagara Falls with AC
electricity
 November 16, 1896 first
power reaches Buffalo

11.  1899, Tesla begins research in Colorado Springs,
Colorado
 conducting wireless telegraphy experiments
 observed unusual signals that he later thought may
have been evidence of extraterrestrial radio
communications
 Left January 1900

12.  Received $150,000 from J.
P. Morgan to construct
Wardenclyffe
 December 12,
1901Marconi developmed
a radiotelegraph system
 Morgan stopped funding
the project
 1905 the project was
abandoned

13.  On 11 July 1934 the headline
on the front page of the New
York Times read, "TESLA, AT 78,
BARES NEW 'DEATH BEAM.'"

14.  Died some time between the evening of 5 January and the morning of 8
January 1943, at the age of 86.
 Tesla's funeral took place on 12 January 1943, at the Cathedral of Saint
John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City.
 His body was cremated and his ashes taken to Belgrade, Yugoslavia in
1957. The urn was placed in the Nikola Tesla Museum.