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Nikola Tesla


Few people recognize his name today, and even among those who do, the
words Nikola Tesla are likly to summon up the image of a crackpot rather than
an authentic scientist. Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the
world has ever known. He was, without doubt, a genius who is not only credited
with many devices we use today, but is also credited with astonishing, sometimes
world-transforming, devices that are even simply amazing by today's
scientific
standards.

Tesla was born at precisely midnight between July 9th and 10th, 1856, in
a small Hungarien village. He was born to his father, a priest, and his mother,
an unschooled but extremely intelligent women. Training for an engineering
career, he attendedthe Technical University of Graz, Austria and was shortly
employed in a government telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made
his first invention, a telephone repeater. Tesla sailed to America in 1884,
arriving in New York City with......

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