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Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan
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Moved to Budapest
In 1880, he moved to Budapest to work under Tivadar Puskás in a telegraph company,[22] the National Telephone Company. There, he met Nebojša Petrović, a young, Serbian inventor who lived in Austria. Although their encounter was brief, they did work on a project together using twin turbines to create continual power. (Not sure when the event occured during this year) -
Tesla became chief electrician to the company.
On the opening of the telephone exchange in Budapest, 1881, Tesla became the chief electrician to the company, and was later engineer for the country's first telephone system. He also developed a device that, according to some, was a telephone repeater or amplifier, but according to others could have been the first loudspeaker.[23]
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Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing.
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Tesla began investigating x-rays.
In April 1887, Tesla began investigating what would later be called X-rays using his own single terminal vacuum tubes (similar to his patent #514,170). This device differed from other early X-ray tubes in that it had no target electrode. -
Tesla Opens Grand St. Lab
Upon returning to New York, Tesla located a new laboratory at 175 Grand St. There is little information known about this laboratory, but here Tesla would begin work with high frequency apparatus, wireless transmission and theories on the relationship between electromagnetic radiation and light. -
Fire destroys Tesla's laboratory
Disaster strikes - Tesla's laboratory is completely destroyed by fire, ruining the work of half a lifetime. Tesla is devastated. -
July, 15th: Wardenclyffe Testing Begins
"The New York Sun" reported the strange goings-on at Tesla's transmitter. It stated, "all sorts of lightning were flashed from the tall tower and poles," and "the air was filled with blinding streaks of electricity which seemed to shoot off into the darkness on some mysterious errand." -
Tesla declares bankruptcy
Tesla owed back taxes, but was penniless, living in poverty, on credit, at the Waldorf-Astoria -
Death
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Tesla awarded Patent for Radio
The US Supreme Court confirms that Marconi’s patents infringed Tesla's. Tesla finally wins… -
Monument officially opened
Another monument to Tesla, featuring him standing on a portion of an alternator, was established at Queen Victoria Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The monument was officially unveiled on 9 July 2006 on the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth. The monument was sponsored by St. George Serbian Church, Niagara Falls, and designed by Les Drysdale of Hamilton, Ontario. Drysdale's design was the winning design from an international competition.
