INVENTOR

Nikola Tesla

1856 - 1943

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Nikola Tesla (; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikola Tesla has received more than 41,724,966 page views. His biography is available in 163 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 158 in 2019). Nikola Tesla is the 2nd most popular inventor (up from 3rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Croatia and the most popular Croatian Inventor.

Nikola Tesla is most famous for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Nikola Tesla ranks 2 out of 426. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci. After him are Thomas Edison, Johannes Gutenberg, James Watt, Elon Musk, Alexander Graham Bell, Karl Benz, Henry Ford, Guglielmo Marconi, Charles Babbage, and Louis Braille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Nikola Tesla ranks 1. After him are Sigmund Freud, Philippe Pétain, George Bernard Shaw, Woodrow Wilson, J. J. Thomson, Louis Sullivan, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Robert Peary, and Emil Kraepelin. Among people deceased in 1943, Nikola Tesla ranks 1. After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Hilbert, Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, Simone Weil, Karl Landsteiner, Camille Claudel, Henrik Pontoppidan, Boris III of Bulgaria, Theodor Eicke, and Sophie Scholl.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Nikola Tesla ranks 1 out of 700. After him are Josip Broz Tito (1892), Diocletian (244), Rüstem Pasha (1500), Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (-63), Valens (328), Franjo Tuđman (1922), János Kádár (1912), Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934), Pope John IV (600), and Pope Caius (250).

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Among INVENTORS In Croatia

Among inventors born in Croatia, Nikola Tesla ranks 1. After him are Fausto Veranzio (1551), Josip Belušić (1847), and Robert Ludvigovich Bartini (1897).

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