Show I o 0 IKOLA KOLA TESLA the tho noted physicist I electrician and ami In Inventor Inventor inventor In- In was born bornat bornat bornat at Luka i 1 n Hun Austro-Hun- I gary In ins 1857 Tesla's father was vas a a. dIstinguIshed distinguished distin dIstin- d d clergyman clergyman clergy clergy- man and orator and his mother was the daughter of ot an Inventor and herself an Inventor His father intended to educate Nikola for tor his liis own profession proCession but the tho boy prevailed upon his parents to send him to the polytechnic school In Gratz where for four tour years rears ho he studied mathematics mathematics mathematics math math- physics and mechanics Two years of or philosophic studies at the University of Prague followed It was In 1881 that ho began his practical career In Buda and here he made his first electrical In Invention Invention invention In- In a telephone repeater and first conceived the Idea of the rotating magnetic field A few years later he was led to come como to this country where he desired desired de- de sired to develop motors o on op tho the basis of his own discovery of ot the tho rotating magnetic field This he completed In lass 1883 Among his inventions are a no number of methods and appliances of electrical vibrations aiming at tho production of efficient lI light ht with lamps without filaments fil filaments filaments fil- fil aments and the production and transmission transmission transmission trans trans- mission of power without wires It was his discovery of the action I 1 5 1 I t I 4 r t of air on gaseous matter when sub nb- subjected jetted to rapidly alternating electrostatic electrostatic electro electro- static stresses that the modern art of ot Insulating currents of very h high h tension ten tea sion slon Is ls based Among his other achievement la is til the construction of ot steam engines and sad I electrical generators or oscillators with l which results otherwise have e been a achieved y Ho He is now a a. citizen of ot the t f States State and IB Is an ar ardent ent advocate ox of the count country un under or whose flag roost most of or his Inventions were originated He haw has written a a. number of ot ealen- ealen scientific works and has edd addressed d mat scion scientific UCle societies |