Prepared by Daria Duyunova and Vladimir Ziryanov, 11 th form, Muravlenko
Nikola Tesla was born in Austria-Hungary, July 9, He was the fourth child in family clergyman. His father wanted him to become a priest, but Tesla went to study at a technical school in Graz.
Tesla received a classical education, spoke several languages, graduated from the Polytechnic University Graz (1878) and Prague University (1880). In 1883 produced his first electric motor.
Tesla's inventions such as alternators, induction motor, induction machine, three-phase and multi- phase transformers, radically changed the principles of the use of electricity, which existed at the time, and still have not lost their importance.
Tesla died on January 7, He was 86 years old. The body of the great inventor was cremated, and the urn containing the ashes installed on Fernklif cemetery in New York.