The curious minds at ColdFusion tell the lesser-known and fascinating story of Nikola Tesla’s life and inventions.

Nikola Tesla may not be as well-known as some of his contemporaries, such as incandescent lightbulb creator Thomas Edison, but the engineer and inventor is arguably one of the most influential ...

Nikola Tesla, the famed scientist and inventor. A genius ahead of his time and champion of AC, inventor of the Tesla Coil and lover of pigeons. His name lives on today. Yarnhub.

Nikola Tesla, the inventor who pioneered a new form of electric current, was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in modern-day Croatia. He went on to acquire nearly 300 patents.

Inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia. Tesla’s father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church, notes Encyclopedia Britannica.

Considering Tesla’s early years in the village of Smiljan were filled with death (including that of his older brother, Dane, when Nikola was only 5), military conscription, and disease, it would ...

Tesla patented his AC motors and power systems, which were said to be the most valuable inventions since the telephone. Soon, Westinghouse, recognizing that Tesla’s designs might be just what he ...

Tesla, born in the Austrian Empire in 1856 before he moved to the U.S. in his late 20s, is famed for his inventions such as hydroelectric power, the Tesla coil, and his work on developing a radio.

For years, the alleged last words of Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla have circulated online, purporting to reveal his final thoughts before his death in January 1943.