Happy birthday Nikola

[crustychief]

Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday. Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer.

Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia.

He was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Tesla is often described as an important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who 'shed light over the face of Earth.'

Nikola Tesla is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[Steve Viegas]

Invented the radio...AC power and all sorts of other good things that we use today.

[Monza_dh]

thought he founded Tesla:

[ChkbookMechanic]

Originally Posted by Steve Viegas

Invented the radio...AC power and all sorts of other good things that we use today.

Not to mentioned he invented things that took us a long time to figure out (radio control) and things we still haven't figured out.

I'm depressed we all learn about Edison in school and nothing about Tesla.

As a side note, at the university I attend they have a power plant and it has the names of famous inventors / scientists that researched electricity and they left off Tesla. It always makes me angry.