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<h1 class="heading">Nikola Tesla</h1>
<h2 class="heading"><em>The Father of Modern Power</em></h2>
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<img class="col-xs-12" src="http://themindunleashed.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nikola.jpg" alt="https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiM_9WQutHOAhVMKiYKHWykBBoQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fffden-2.phys.uaf.edu%2Fwebproj%2F212_spring_2015%2FJonathan_Newell%2Findex.html&bvm=bv.129759880,d.eWE&psig=AFQjCNEzvtXlxcFCr1qAE_UnmGWB6MBYsQ&ust=1471832675527207">
<p>Source: <a href="http://themindunleashed.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nikola.jpg">themindunleashed.org</a>
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<h3>Time Line of Tesla's Life:</h3>
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<li><b>1856</b> - Tesla's Birth.</li>
<li><b>1875</b> - Tesla Enrolls at Graz Polytechnic.</li>
<li><b>1882</b> - Started Working for Continental Edison in Paris.</li>
<li><b>1882</b> - Identified Magnetic Induction Field Principle which is being used in alternators today.</li>
<li><b>1884</b> - Moved to United States and was offered $50,000 dollars by Thomas Edison to solve a complex problem.</li>
<li><b>1885</b> - Tesla quits working for Thomas Edison after Edison refused to pay Tesla $50,000 for solving the complex problem.</li>
<li><b>1886</b>- Tesla Began Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company in Rahway, New Jersey. Investment did not go well.</li>
<li><b>1887</b> - War of Currents began when Direct current by Thomas Edison competed against Tesla's Alternating Current.</li>
<li><b>1891</b> - Tesla patents Tesla Coil which produced a high voltage, low current, and high frequency alternating current electricity.</li>
<li><b>1891</b> - Tesla offered a low cost electrical solution that powered the World's Columbian Exhibition.</li>
<li><b>1901</b> - Tesla began construction on Wardenclyffe Tower to prove possibility of wireless transmission of electrical energy over long distance, project was never finished however.</li>
<li><b>1915</b> - Tesla filed suit against Guglielmo Marconi over accomplishment of radio frequency.</li>
<li><b>1934</b> - New York Times published Tesla's particle beam research, was not financially successful.</li>
<li><b>1943</b> - Tesla's Death in his home. His research and papers was seized by US government.</li>
<li><b>1960</b> - "Tesla" became recognized as a scientific unit for one Magnetic Field B </li>
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<p class="quotes">"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
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-<em>Nikola Tesla</em></p>
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<p>Source of Inspiration: <a href="https://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/nikola-tesla" target="_blank">Click Here!</a></p>
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<p>Written & Coded by <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.com/adongu" target="_blank">Alex L.</a></p>
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