167 years ago: In the village of Smiljan (Croatia), Nikola Tesla, the Yugoslav-American inventor with around 300 patents to his name, was born
by Unexpected_yetHere
167 years ago: In the village of Smiljan (Croatia), Nikola Tesla, the Yugoslav-American inventor with around 300 patents to his name, was born
by Unexpected_yetHere
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and meanwhile my newborn niece has no patents. not even sure i love her now 💔
If you ever feel like you might have wasted your initial time in college with a “party now, study later” mentality, don’t worry, Tesla gambled away his savings several times as a student and actually never even completed his studies.
By all accounts, he would sleep some 2 hours, sometimes spending up to three days without any sleep. Despite this, he’d live to the ripe old age of 86 (there were tales of him using magnet-therapy to prolong his life).
Tesla was ultimately a workocholic focused solely on his inventions, having little regard for wealth (he apparently refused 2 million $ because it would be to much to the detriment of his benefactor), and even less so for politics. However, in that regard it should be noted (as the topic will always sadly come around) that Tesla was leaning hard on the ideas of pan-yugoslavism and regarded the nationalities of Yugoslavia to be the same people. He supported his nephew, the politician and later minister Sava Kosanović in his rebuke of croatophobic Serb nationalist forces during WW2.
His final wish, to visit Yugoslavia, would not come to be as he died in 1943., before Yugoslavia was liberated from German yoke.
His face now graces both the Euro and the Serbian Dinar, Serbia’s largest airport bears his name and there is a memorial centre in his home-village in Croatia. This, along with many statues, street names and other memorials (as well as having one of the planet’s largest companies named after him) is, I’d say, still not enough to commemorate this great and fruitful mind.
Yugoslav? He was born and moved to USA before creation of both Yugoslavias and died before term “Yugoslav” was even introduced in [1971](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavs).
least innovative serb
Let me correct that:
167 years ago: In the village of Smiljan (Austro-Hungary), Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor with around 300 patents to his name, was born
There you go 🙂
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I must say Croats are amazing, they killed Tesla’s family and burned his village in WW2 because they were Serbs, when Tesla became famous they started saying that Tesla is Croatian. When Djokovic (Serbia\s tennis player) started winning and became no.1 they started saying that he is Croatian because his mother was born in Croatia. I imagine the next time Serbia gets a famous scientist or a player they will start saying that that person is Croatian because he once passed through Croatia on his way to Italy 🙂
oh boy here we go again..
Inb4 iT wAs AuStRiA, cRoAtIa DiDnT eXiSt
> Yugoslav-American inventor
Well, that’s one way to avoid a dispute
Not sure why people are getting pissy about this title. It’s factually correct that Smiljan is in Croatia, doesn’t mean that Tesla wasn’t of Serbian origin…
A Welshman could be born in Oxford, doesn’t make them English now does it… people just find any excuse to get mad
Yugoslav lol
Imagine Croatia claiming Tesla and putting him on coins, while they massacred his family, relatives and home twice in the last 100 years.
Truly the most bravest people, but not because of their heroics, but because they know no shame.
Hey it’s the guy from these electric cars!