Running Head: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla, Inventor
Paul Lidberg
HIS458
DLCTSMBS304
Prof. Paul Webb
December 6, 2005

Week #1
Nikola Tesla, Inventor
Nikola Tesla, Inventor
Nikola Tesla is regarded as one of the most brilliant inventors in history. His work provided the basis for the modern alternating current power system, as well as having developed both radio and the fluorescent light bulb. He worked with Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, among others. He was also widely misunderstood by his peers and the public at large.
Biography
Nikola Tesla was born in a small town called Smiljan, in what is now Croatia, during a lightning storm. Some would say that this would prove significant later in his life. He grew up the son of a Serbian Orthodox Reverend, and was one of five children. He was an avid reader, and would often memorize entire books.
He studied electrical engineering at Graz Politechnic in Graz, Austria. He then moved to Budapest to work for the......

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