Various Tesla book cover images

Nikola Tesla Books

Books written by or about Nikola Tesla
This beautiful region of our Homeland, with its extraordinary natural beauties, instilled and awakened the inventive spirit of Nikola Tesla.

A railway line to Split runs through Lika, and north of it another line to Sušak. Both these railways connect the capital Belgrade with these important points in the far west and southwest of our Homeland.

The main towns in Lika are Gospić and Otočac, and the most notable of all is the village of Smiljan, the birthplace of Nikola Tesla. There also lie the widely renowned and beautiful Plitvice Lakes.

The majority of Lika’s inhabitants are Serbs. They settled there from Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Southern Serbia during the Turkish rule. These were Uskoks and Hajduks, who were persecuted by the Turks. Lika lies