Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia, then division of the Austro-Hungarian territory. His father was a minister in the Serbian Orthodox church and his mother manages the family's farm. In 1863 Tesla's brother Daniel was killed in a traverse accident. The distress of the loss unsettled the 7-year-old Tesla, who reported seeing, visions—the first signs of his enduring mental sickness.
Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and attitude at the University of Prague. In 1882, while on a walk, he came up with the thought for a brushless AC motor; manufacture the first draft of its revolving electromagnets in the sand of the path. Later that year he stimulated to Paris and got a job restore direct current (DC) power plants with the Continental Edison Company. Two years presently he immigrated to the United States.
Tesla inwards in New York in 1884 and was hired as an engineer at Thomas Edison's Manhattan headquarters. He worked there for a year; make an impression Edison with his industry and cleverness. At one point Edison told Tesla he would pay $50,000 for an enhanced design for his DC dynamos. After months of trialing, Tesla presented a resolution and asked for the money.
After an unsuccessful effort to start his own Tesla Electric Light Company and a stint excavate ditches for $2 a day, Tesla establish backers to support his investigate into irregular current. In 1887 and 1888 he was decided more than 30 patents for his creation and invited to address the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on his work. His lecture trapped the attention of George Westinghouse, the discoverer who had launched the first AC power system near Boston and was Edison's major participant in the "Battle of the Currents."
In the 1890s Tesla imaginary electric oscillators, meters, enhanced lights and the high-voltage transformer known as the Tesla coil. He also researched with X-rays, gave short-range demonstrations of radio communication two years before Guglielmo Marconi and piloted a radio-controlled boat approximately a pool in Madison Square Garden. Together, Tesla and Westinghouse lit the 1891 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago and united with General Electric to install AC generators at Niagara Falls, generate the first modern power station.
