Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was born in a thunder and lightning storm on the 10th of July 1856 in what we now know as Croatia. He was a Serbian- American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla got his first job in Budapest in 1882, working at a telephone company. A few years later he moved to the United States. Even in his early life, he was inventing things. His best known invention was an electric motor that could run well on AC power. Tesla died of coronary thrombosis(Coronary thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel of the heart.) in a hotel room in Manhattan, New York City on 7 January 1943.Tesla's achievements made him very famous. So did his abilities as a showman, demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions.