In memory of
Nikola Tesla
Engineer of alternating current
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 86 years
- Resting place
- Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia
Born in a village in what is now Croatia to a Serbian family, Tesla arrived in New York at twenty-eight with four cents and a letter of introduction. His alternating-current system, backed by Westinghouse, beat Edison's direct current and is how electricity reaches houses to this day.
He held some three hundred patents and died alone in a hotel room in Manhattan, in debt, having given away or lost most of his royalties. His ashes are kept in a gilded sphere in Belgrade.
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