Nikola Tesla Landmarks - Page 6

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...

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...

Nikola Tesla developed a deep affection for pigeons in his later years and spent considerable time in Bryant Park feeding them. Living at the New Yorker Hotel (from the early 1930s until his death in...