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Nikola Tesla

Nikola TeslaBorn: 9-Jul-1856
Birthplace: Smiljan, Croatia
Died: 7-Jan-1943
Location of death: New Yorker Hotel, New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Cremated, Ferncliff Cemetery, Ardsley, NY, then transferred to Belgrade Yugoslavia in 1957

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Asexual
Occupation: Inventor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Invented alternating current

Thought chastity was a key component to his inventive abilities.

Father: Milutin Tesla (priest)
Mother: Đuka Mandić

    IEEE
    IEEE Edison Medal 1916
    National Inventors Hall of Fame
    Units of Measure magnetic concentration
    Naturalized US Citizen 1891
    Bankruptcy c. 1916
    Nervous Breakdown 1880
    Risk Factors: Vegetarian, Malaria

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Nikola Tesla

Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #2057 (20 cents, issued 21-Sep-1983)


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