As a visionary and a scientist, Nikola Tesla was a man heading before his, and, probably, before our time. His ideal was to serve the entire mankind. He patented 700 inventions. He was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, near Gospić, Croatia, and died on January 7, 1943 in New York, USA.

He obtained his Honorary Ph.D. title at the University of Zagreb in 1926. The unit for magnetic induction tesla (T) was named after him in 1960 and one of the craters on the Moon was also named after Nikola Tesla. At the time of his death he was a person with the highest number of registered patents in the USA.

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