<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans+Condensed:300|Playfair+Display" rel="stylesheet"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <div class="header text-left"> <h1>Nikola Tesla</h1> <h4>The World's Most Misunderstood Genius</h4> </div> </div> </div> <hr> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <img src="http://www.b92.net/news/pics/2014/04/13/1664899583534a90ba1e511978239735_orig.jpg" class="img-responsive"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-6"> <!-- intentionally left blank --> </div> <div class="col-xs-6"> <div class="text-right"> <p class="quote">"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."</p> <p class="quote-atr">- Nikola Tesla</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <div> <h3 class="heading">The Life of Nikola Tesla</h3> <ul> <li><span class="bold">1856</span> - Born on July 10th in Smiljan, Austrian Empire</li> <li><span class="bold">1862</span> - Tesla family moves to Gospic</li> <li><span class="bold">1870</span> - Tesla family moves to Karlovac</li> <li><span class="bold">1873</span> - Nikola contracts Cholera and nearly dies</li> <li><span class="bold">1875</span> - Nikola enrolled at Austrian Polytechnic School in Graz</li> <li><span class="bold">1878</span> - Tesla moves to Maribor and accepts first job as draftsman</li> <li><span class="bold">1879</span> - Nikola teaches in Gospic briefly</li> <li><span class="bold">1881</span> - Nikola accepts Chief Electrician position at the Budapest Telephone Exchange</li> <li><span class="bold">1882</span> - Nikola has A.C. epiphany and draws his famous vision of an electric motor in the sand at his feet</li> <li><span class="bold">1882</span> - Nikola accepts job in Paris with the Continental Edison Company and submits plan to improve Edison dynamos; Tesla is dispatched before he is compensated</li> <li><span class="bold">1883</span> - Nikola is sent to Strasbourg, France where he repairs D.C. lighting system, but never receives payment</li> <li><span class="bold">1883</span> - Nikola demonstrates his new A.C. induction motor to investors; None of them understand the value of the invention</li> <li><span class="bold">1884</span> - Nikola moves to New York, USA and meets Thomas Edison</li> <li><span class="bold">1885</span> - Tesla starts Tesla Electirc Light Company in Rahway, NJ; He is later outed from the company</li> <li><span class="bold">1885</span> - Tesla has dispute with Edison over payment for improving Edison's work and resigns from the company</li> <li><span class="bold">1886</span> - Betrayed, Tesla enters a period of severe depression</li> <li><span class="bold">1887</span> - Nikola is introduced to Alfred S. Brown & Charles F. Peck who fund his future projects</li> <li><span class="bold">1888</span> - Nikola presents his paper titled <em>"A New System of Alternate-Current Motors and Transformers"</em> before AIEE</li> <li><span class="bold">1888</span> - Nikola sells patents for his A.C. Polyphase System to George Westinghouse for a handsome price and travels to Pittsburgh, PA to finalize the deal</li> <li><span class="bold">1889</span> - Tesla begins work with high frequency apparatus, wireless transmission, and theories on the relationship between electomagnetic radiation & light</li> <li><span class="bold">1890</span> - Tesla develops neon and fluorescent illumination and takes the 1st X-ray photographs; his lifelong obsession with wireless tranmission of energy starts</li> <li><span class="bold">1890</span> - Edison begins electrocuting animals to show the dangers of Tesla's A.C. power; First human casualty of A.C. is taken by electric chair</li> <li><span class="bold">1891</span> - Tesla moves forward with Ames Power Plant, becomes an American Citizen, develops the Tesla coil, and discovers the existence of electrons</li> <li><span class="bold">1892</span> - Tesla travels around the world to lecture, his mother dies, and gets elected vice president of the AIEE</li> <li><span class="bold">1893</span> - Tesla lands contracts with the Columbian Exposition and Niagara</li> <li><span class="bold">1894</span> - Nikola voted corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy of Belgrade; First book about Tesla is published</li> <li><span class="bold">1895</span> - Nikola's 5th Ave. lab burns down, destroying much of his work; The first Niagara generator is tested successfully</li> <li><span class="bold">1896</span> - The Niagara Power Plant powers the city of Buffalo, NY - 22 miles away from the plant; Tesla elected honorary member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb</li> <li><span class="bold">1898</span> - Tesla publically demonstrates his "automation" technology by wirelessly controlling a model boat</li> <li><span class="bold">1899</span> - Nikola claims discovery of terrestrial stationary waves and believes he receives first messages from life beyond Earth</li> <li><span class="bold">1900</span> - Tesla Ozone Company formed</li> <li><span class="bold">1901</span> - Construction of the Wardenclyffe Tower commences</li> <li><span class="bold">1903</span> - Wardenclyffe Tower testing begins</li> <li><span class="bold">1904</span> - Colorado Springs Power Company sues Tesla; His Colorado lab is torn down and his electrical equipment is put into storage</li> <li><span class="bold">1906</span> - Tesla Turbine made public; Air-Friction speedometer is patented</li> <li><span class="bold">1907</span> - Nikola is elected as an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences</li> <li><span class="bold">1909</span> - Marconi wins Nobel Prize for "his" radio; Tesla is enraged</li> <li><span class="bold">1911</span> - Tesla conducts extensive tests with steam turbines</li> <li><span class="bold">1915</span> - After years of financial hardship, Tesla is forced to surrender the deed to Wardenclyffe</li> <li><span class="bold">1916</span> - Tesla files for bankruptcy</li> <li><span class="bold">1917</span> - Tesla receives Edison Medal after originally rejecting the highest award of the AIEE; He also envisions the radar</li> <li><span class="bold">1922</span> - Nikola's most beloved pet pigeon dies, signalling the end of his life's work</li> <li><span class="bold">1926</span> - Tesla receives honorary doctorate diplomas from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Belgrade and the University of Zagreb</li> <li><span class="bold">1934</span> - Tesla moves into the Hotel New Yorker where he lives rent free for the rest of his life; He's also featured in Scientific American, awarded the John Scott Medal, and unveils his death ray</li> <li><span class="bold">1937</span> - Tesla receives honorary doctorate degree from University of Poitiers, as well as the Dr. Honoris Causa of technical science</li> <li><span class="bold">1943</span> - Nikola dies at age 86 in his room in the Hotel New Yorker, New York City, New York</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <hr> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12"> <footer> <h4>Please check out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" target="_blank">this article</a> for more information on the life of Nikola Tesla.</h4> <p class="text-center">Written & coded by <a href="http://www.tylerbartnick.com" target="_blank">Tyler Bartnick</a></p> </footer> </div> </div> </div>

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