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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

1856 – 1943
Science & Invention

Nikola Tesla 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.

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Contemporaries

Max Planck
Max Planck
85 yr overlap
 Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
83 yr overlap
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
81 yr overlap
 Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
80 yr overlap
 Henry Ford
Henry Ford
80 yr overlap
 Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
80 yr overlap
 H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
77 yr overlap
 Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
75 yr overlap
 Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
74 yr overlap
 Orville Wright
Orville Wright
72 yr overlap
 Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
71 yr overlap
 Claude Monet
Claude Monet
70 yr overlap

Their World

Global Events
1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1861 American Civil War begins
1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States
1869 Suez Canal opens
1871 Unification of Germany
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa
1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage
1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight
1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
1914 World War I begins
1917 Russian Revolution
1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins
1919 Treaty of Versailles signed
1920 League of Nations established
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
1939 World War II begins
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII
In Their Field
1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
1865 Mendel publishes laws of heredity
1869 Mendeleev creates the periodic table
1895 Roentgen discovers X-rays
1898 Marie Curie discovers radium and polonium
1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity
1915 Einstein publishes theory of general relativity
1928 Fleming discovers penicillin
1932 Chadwick discovers the neutron