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Tesla’s father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church, notes Encyclopedia Britannica. <\/p>\n
His mother, while uneducated, was “highly intelligent.” <\/p>\n
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The younger Tesla took a keen interest in science at a young age. Around the age of six, he started to conduct experiments, according to the website for the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe in New York.<\/p>\n
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Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856.\u00a0<\/span> (Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n As a young adult, Tesla worked at the Budapest Telephone Exchange<\/a> and at a job installing lights in Paris. <\/p>\n At both of these jobs, Tesla was able to invent improvements to existing technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Budapest, Tesla “improved the equipment and developed an amplifier” \u2014 while in Paris, “Tesla made improvements to Edison\u2019s dynamos and created an automatic regulator,” said the Tesla Science Center. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That same year, Tesla met Thomas Edison<\/a>. <\/p>\n Edison “essentially hired Tesla on the spot” and put him to work on the electrical system of the ocean liner “Oregon,” the first ship with electric lighting. <\/p>\n “The set of dynamos that powered the ship were badly damaged and Edison was amazed to learn that Tesla had repaired him,” said Tesla Universe. <\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among Tesla’s notable achievements are patents for the alternating-current dynamo<\/a>, transformer, and motor, said Encyclopedia Britannica. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1891 \u2014 the same year he became a U.S. citizen \u2014 Tesla invented the “Tesla coil,” “an air-core transformer with primary and secondary coils tuned to resonate,” according to California State University, Long Beach. <\/p>\n “Tesla conceived it to be a means to transmit electrical power without wires,” said the same source.<\/p>\n A demonstration of a Tesla coil. Nikola Tesla, born on July 10, 1856, invented the Tesla coil, “an air-core transformer with primary and secondary coils tuned to resonate,” according to Cal State Long Beach. “Tesla conceived it to be a means to transmit electrical power without wires.”<\/span> (Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n Eventually, Tesla would acquire nearly 300 patents throughout his life, said the Tesla Science Center. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MARCH 10, 1876, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MAKES FIRST TELEPHONE CALL FROM BOSTON LAB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the modern era, the name Tesla is most commonly associated with a brand of electric cars.<\/p>\n![\"tesla](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1254740432.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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