Nikola Tesla Landmarks - Page 4

On May 23, 1899, a banquet was held here in honor of the arrival of Nikola Tesla the week before. The event was arranged and financed by Tesla's long-time friend and attorney, Leonard E. Curtis . The...

Nikola Tesla was born an ethnic Serb in the village Smiljan, Lika county, in the Austrian Empire (present day Croatia), on 10 July, 1856. His father, Milutin Tesla (1819–1879), was an Eastern Orthodox...

After Tesla's death in 1943, his nephew, Sava N. Kosanović, was named as Tesla's sole heir. Mr. Kosanović was a politician for Tesla's Serbian homeland, then Yugoslavia, and worked with the government...