Nikola Tesla was a brilliant inventor who helped bring electricity into homes everywhere. He could picture his amazing machines in his mind before he ever built them.
Quick facts
- Born
- 10 July 1856, Smiljan (now in Croatia)
- Famous for
- Inventions that bring us electricity
- Known for
- Imagining machines in his mind
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Electricity for everyone
Tesla helped invent the system (called AC) that sends electricity safely over long distances — the very kind that powers the lights in your home today.
A mind full of ideas
Tesla could imagine a whole machine inside his head, down to the tiniest part. He had over 300 patents for his many inventions!
Dreaming of the future
He dreamed of wireless power and radio long before they were common. Many of his ideas were far ahead of his time.
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla
Why we remember Nikola
Tesla shows us that big imagination can light up the world — quite literally! He worked with electricity just like the great inventor Thomas Edison.