Nikola tesla biography placido domingo

Although now largely forgotten, Nikola Tesla was either responsible for, or predicted, much of the technology we now take for granted. Here’s a look at the life and achievements of that fascinating man.

Ask any electrical engineering student today to tell you something about Nikola Tesla, and you are likely to get a blank stare.

Or the counter-question: Who was Tesla? It seems preposterous that our educators should have ignored entirely the “father” of our AC age, but such is the fact.

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Something should be done about our technical education system.

Born July 9, 1856 in the village of Smiljan in what is now Yugoslavia, Tesla rose from relative obscurity to a top position in the scientific world. He became a millionaire at age 32 through his important inventions, but later faded into obscurity and died nearly penniless.

His father was a clergyman.

His mother, though she never learned to read and write, was known in the community as an inventor