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| ==Early years== | |||
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| Tesla was born "at the stroke of midnight" with lightning striking during a summer storm. He was born in ] near ], ], (the a ] of ], now in ]). The midwife commented, "He'll be a child of the storm," to which his mother replied, "No, of light." Tesla was ] in the Old Slavonic Church rite. His Baptism Certificate reports that he was born on June 28 (]; July 10 in the ]), and christened by the Serb orthodox ], Toma Oklobdžija. | |||
| His ] father, the ] ], was a priest in the ] which gathered to Serbs of the "Greek-rite" as they were legally referred to in Austria-Hungary at the time. His mother, ], from a prominent Serb family of the ], made home craft tools. He was one of five children, having one brother and three sisters. His ], ], was a Captain in the Krajina army. His family moved to Gospić in ]. Tesla went to school in ] (Austria-Hungary), then studied electrical engineering at the ] in ], ] (]). While there, he studied the uses of alternating current. He also developed a ] ] (or ]). | |||
| In ] he moved to ] to work for the ] company, ]. On the opening of the telephone exchange in ], ], Tesla became the chief electrician to the telephone company, later engineer to the ] government and the country's first telephone system. Tesla invented a precursor to modern ], known as a telephone repeater](or sometimes an amplifier). The device could act as an ] ] (not an audio ]). The device had its ] tuned to a particular ] of other repeaters to communicate between each. In ], Tesla described the prior developed audio transducers. According to Tesla, it was the "... ''implest ways ] ...] the low frequency gave audible notes. placed a ], a wire or a coil, and then Tesla would get a note characteristics of the audible note''". The audible sounds were of the quality of the telephones diaphragms of that period of time. The invention was never patented nor released publicly (till years later by Tesla himself). The device also contained the characteristics of modern wireless telephones. | |||
| For a while he stayed in ]. He was employed at his first job as an assistant engineer. Tesla suffered a nervous breakdown during this time. In ] he moved to ] to work as an engineer for the ]. He worked designing improvements to electric equipment. In the same year, Tesla conceived of the induction motor and began developing various devices that use rotating ]s (for which he received patents in ]). Tesla visualized the rotating fields and thereby designed the induction motor. Tesla hastened from Paris to his mother's side as she lay dying, arriving hours before her death in ]. Her last words to him were, "You've arrived, Nidzo, my pride." After her death, Tesla fell ill. He spent two to three weeks recuperating in Gospić and ]. All his life, Tesla kept a home-spun embroidered travel bag from his mother. | |||
| == 1930's == | |||
| In ], Tesla wrote to consul Janković of his homeland. The letter contained the message of gratitude to ] who initiated a donation scheme by which American companies could support Tesla. Tesla refused the assistance, and chose to live by a modest pension received from ] and to continue researching. | |||
| ==Education== | |||
| * Fluent in seven languages (], ], ], ], ], ], ]) | |||
| * Elementary school: ] (Austria-Hungary) | |||
| * Secondary school: ] (Austria-Hungary) | |||
| *Undergraduate | |||
| ** Baccalaureate of Physics: Austrian Polytechnic Institute (Graz) | |||
| ** Baccalaureate of Mathematics: Austrian Polytechnic Institute (Graz) | |||
| ** Baccalaureate of Mechanical Engineering: Austrian Polytechnic Institute (Graz) | |||
| ** Baccalaureate of Electrical Engineering: Austrian Polytechnic Institute (Graz) | |||
| *Graduate studies | |||
| ** PhD in Physics: ] (]) | |||
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