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Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, present-day Croatia, on July 10, 1856

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When he was three years old, he experienced an episode that would mark the direction of his life: while stroking the back of his cat, the touch of his hand produced a shower of sparks and he wanted to find out what was the reason.

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At just 17 years old, young Nikola became seriously ill with cholera and was on the verge of not recovering. His father promised that once restored he would send him to the best engineering school there was, the most fervent wish of the young man. After recovering and entering the army, in 1875, Tesla began his studies at the Polytechnic University of Graz, in Austria.

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In his student days, he began to develop the purpose that would accompany him forever: to devise a way in which free energy could reach everyone. In 1881 he traveled to Vienna, where he worked at the National Telephone Company. Eventually, Tesla moved to Paris, where he found work at the Edison Company.

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From the French capital he traveled to New York in 1884 - the same year that the Statue of Liberty also arrived from Paris. Once in town, Tesla went directly to the offices of the man who would definitely influence his life: Thomas Alva Edison.

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In 1886, Tesla founded his own company, the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. The first investors did not agree with his plans for the development of an alternating current motor and finally ended up relieving him of his position in the company.

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In 1887, he built a brushless induction motor, powered by alternating current, which he presented to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1888. That same year he developed the principle of his coil, and began to work with George Westinghouse at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's in Pittsburgh Labs.

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In 1898, an invention called the "Teleautomaton" was presented to the first Electrical Exhibit at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was a miniature boat, remotely controlled by radio. Tesla tried to sell his idea to the US military, but at the time the navy showed little interest

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Tesla also had problems with Marconi, who is credited with inventing the radio. Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1909 for this invention, although Tesla had patented the idea in 1896. But the patent office backtracked and ended up granting Marconi the patent for the invention. There was much talk at the time about the change, which some attributed to economic pressure from Marconi. Finally, in 1943 the United States Supreme Court recognized Nikola Tesla shortly before his death as the inventor of the radio and returned the patent, which had been in the possession of Marconi until that time.

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Finally, Nikola Tesla died alone on January 7, 1943, in a hotel room in New York, at the age of 86, of a myocardial infarction. His funeral, which was held in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, was attended by more than 2,000 people who mourned the loss of a true genius. The United States government, once Nikola Tesla was buried, intervened in his office and requisitioned all the documents that contained his studies and research.