How old is Nicola Tesla?

Nicola Tesla was one of the most prominent and famous scientists, electrical and mechanical engineers, inventors, and geniuses of the last century. He was born in 1856 in the Austrian Empire to the family of Serbian origins and spent his childhood alongside his parents and three sisters studying and exploring this world. He got interested in physics and electricity in his high school times, inspired by his teacher. He entered Austrian Polytechnic university but couldn't finish it and continued working in some other universities studying and exploring the issues of electricity, telephony, and others. In the early 1880s, he has got a job in the Continental Edison Company and shortly after moved to the US. There he received plenty of recognition and appreciation of his talent as a physicist, so he could open his labs and patent his inventions like AC induction motors or polyphase AC patterns, etc. Tesla is considered to be the first engineer to explore the ideas of wireless communication, wireless electric power, high-voltage, and high-frequency power distribution, X-Ray technology, radio-related technologies, etc. In the early decades of the last century, he continued his studies but started running out of funds and financial support. Nicola Tesla died in 1943 in NYC and after his death, he received worldwide recognition as an outstanding scientist. In particular, his last name started being used as a name for a magnetic flux density unit.

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