The Secret Of Nikola Tesla - The Movie (2 of 10).
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16:40 - 02.04.2010
movie made in 1980 about the life of nikola tesla.Nikola Tesla (18561943)Nikola Tesla was born on July 10 1856 in Smiljan Lika which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire region of Croatia. His father Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household appliances. Tesla studied at the Realschule Karlstadt in 1873 the Polytechnic Institute in Graz Austria and the University of Prague. At first he intended to specialize in physics and mathematics but soon he became fascinated with electricity. He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1881. It was there as Tesla was walking with a friend through the city park that the elusive solution to the rotating magnetic field flashed through his mind. With a stick he drew a diagram in the sand explaining to his friend the principle of the induction motor. Before going to America Tesla joined Continental Edison Company in Paris where he designeddynamos. While in Strassbourg in 1883 he privately built a prototype of the induction motor and ran it successfully. Unable to interest anyone in Europe in promoting this radical device Tesla accepted an offer to work for Thomas Edison in New York. His childhood dream was to come to America to harness the power of Niagara Falls. Young Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 with an introduction letter from Charles Batchelor to Thomas Edison: I know two great...
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