![]() ![]() Tesla was born in Croatia on a summer night in 1856, during what he claimed was a lightning storm – which led the midwife to say, “He will be a child of the storm,” and his mother to counter prophetically, “No, of the light.”* As a student, Tesla displayed such remarkable abilities to calculate mathematical problems that teachers accused him of cheating. 7 provides a timely opportunity to review the life of a man who came from nowhere yet became world famous claimed to be devoted solely to discovery but relished the role of a showman attracted the attention of many women but never married and generated ideas that transformed daily life and created multiple fortunes but died nearly penniless. The 75th anniversary of Tesla’s death on Jan. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology. ![]() ![]() Claimed to have developed a “superweapon” that would end all war.Developed the underlying technology for wireless communication over long distances.Produced the first motor that ran on AC current.Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla – with these biographical facts: ![]()
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