Nikola Tesla Books
hours, placing all real importance on his other publishing work.
The English celebrated his birth ceremoniously a few years ago. It is said that he was very stubborn and rather limited as a person. One English chemist remarks that he wrote quite a lot of nonsense in his lifetime and that it was fortunate he also invented the erasing gum. When the entire world accepted Lavoisier's theory of combustion, Priestley wrote a book in which he attempted to prove the existence of phlogiston.
The Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Schele (1742-1786), one of the greatest chemists of all time, never managed to finish his studies, and as an incomplete pharmacy student, he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died a staunch supporter of phlogiston.
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in the village of Smiljan near GospiÄ. His father Milutin was the parish priest there. At the end of 1949, the Serbian cultural and educational society "Prosvjeta" from Zagreb erected a monument to him in his birthplace.
According to Tesla's statement, the family used to bear the surname Draganic. Only later did the nickname Tesla become established, because one of the ancestors had large front teeth resembling a carpenter's tool, which in Lika they call - tesla.
Milutin Tesla comes from an old officer's, frontier family, and was born on February 3, 1819 in the village of Raduch, in Lika. In Gospic, he studied at a (German) elementary school "trivial", and later, together with his brother Josif, at a military school. His brother remained in the army, and Milutin could not cope as a soldier and went to Plashki to study theology, which he graduated in 1845 as the best student. After completing the seminary, he married Djuka, the daughter of priest Nikola Mandic from Grachac. He got his first appointment as a chaplain in Senj, where he
