Nikola Tesla timeline

Nikola Tesla was born at midnight between the 9th and 10th of July, during a lighting storm.

After the death of his fourteen year old brother Dane, the Tesla family moved to Gospić where he continues elementary school.

Tesla starts Higher real gymnasium in Rakovac (a village near Karlovac). The school was organized according to german and austrian schools and was one of the best high schools at the time. Professor Martin Sekulić (1833- 1905) taught Tesla mathematics and physics.

Tesla moves to Tomingaj (a village near Gračac) to recover .

After the Military frontier fell apart Tesla lost his scholarship and doesn't manage to finish his second year of university. In an attempt to cover expenses he begins gambling, playing billiards and poker.

Tesla works in Maribor for a short time. After the death of his father he moves back to Gospić and works at the Real gymnasium. 

While living in Budapest Tesla begins working as a draftsman in the Central Telegraph Office of Hungary. He participates in expanding the first telephone network in the city.

Tesla moves to Starsbourg where he builds his first prototype of the induction motor. He goes to Zagreb to acquire a passport.

After leaving Edison, Tesla starts his own company called the Tesla Electric and Manufacturing Company and patents his first inventions.

Tesla begins a new company called the Tesla Electric Company with a loan from A.K. Brown, the director of Western Union. He registers his most important patents: multiphase system of transmitting electricity, the induction motor, transformers and generators.

He visits Europe for the first time after leaving for the U.S. 

He visits Paris and Lika. Returning to New York he opens a laboratory on Grand Street. Up until 1892 he lives in the Astor Hotel.

Tesla recieves american citizenship. He holds a lecture about his experiments with high frequency and alternating currents and their usage in artificial lighting to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He registers many patents and develops the Tesla coil. He has a disagreement with J.J. Thornson who impedes on Tesla's discovery of the electron.

The World Exibition is held in Chicago, it is dedicated to advancements in eletrical engineering. Tesla and George Westinghouse triumph with their presentation of alternating current. In St. Louis Tesla publically presents radio communication. 

On March 13th a fire breaks out in his laboratory and inhibits him from discovering X-rays and publishing his discovery of the electron. He opens a new laboratory on 46-48 East Houston Street. The only earthquake to ever happen in Manhattan started in this laboratory.

Tesla patents a series of inventions that are the foundation for mdern radio technology. He researches the possibilty of wireless transmission of electricity and patents his invention for electrical igniton of gasoline motors. He lives in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Tesla moves to Colorado Springs and opens a laboratory there. He researches high frequency currents, discovers stationary waves and perfects his high frequency transformer, known as the Tesla coil. He was the first to receive radiowaves from the stars and discovers the procedure of listening to stars.

Gugliemo Marconi, uses Tesla's experiments and patents and manages to send the first wireless telegraph between Europe and North America.

J.P. Morgan refuses to continue financing Tesla's world-wide system for wireless transmission on Long Island. Tesla invents the speedometer.

Tesla tests his model of the bladeless turbine.

Tesla works on developing and testing his steam turbines in New York.

Tesla registers his patents for the bladeless turbine, speedometer, frequency meter, valve line and lightning rod. He opens an office in  Woolworth tower.

Tesla receives the Edison medal. Tesla's tower at Wardencliff is torn down. He publishes descriptions of the radar and spends most of his time feeding pigeons.

Tesla's autobigraphy "My Inventions" is publsihed.

Tesla moves to the Marguery Hotel.

Tesla's friend, Katharine Johnson dies and he moves to the Pennsylvania Hotel.

Tesla registers his patents for a vertical take-off flying machine, called the Apparatus for Aerial Transportation ( today known as the vertical short take-off and landing plane)

Thomas Alva Edison dies. The Times publishes Tesla's photograph on the cover on his 75th birthday. Many well-known scientists send him congratulations.

Tesla suggests projects for developing a defence weapon, called the death ray. A ceremony marking Tesla's 80th birthday is held in Zagreb. Vladko Maček sends Tesla a telegraph congragulating him on his birthday. Tesla thanks him and states that he is equally proud of his serbian roots and croatian homeland.

Tesla sends a message to all world academicians against nazis and fasizam.

Tesla dies on Januray 7th, around 10.30 p.m. in apartment 3327 on the 33 floor of the New Yorker Hotel, he was 86 years old. The Supreme Court of America grants Tesla the rights to the invention of the radio.