Most of Tesla's knowledge is self-taught knowledge. But still he was excellent student, and some moment , he knew even more than the teachers. He finished his 1st grade in Smiljan, place where he's born. read more
Inventor Nikola Tesla contributed to the development of an alternating-current electrical system that's widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery). Our privacy policy has been updated. read more
Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village Smiljan, Lika county, in the Austrian Empire (present day Croatia), on 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856. His father, Milutin Tesla (1819–1879), was an Eastern Orthodox priest. read more