Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

Nikola Tesla made long-distance electrical transmission networks possible.

In 1887, Nikola Tesla filed a number of patents related to a competing form of power distribution known as alternating current.

In 1895, Nikola Tesla was able to detect signals from the transmissions of his New York lab at West Point ( a distance of 80. 4 km / 49. 95 miles ).

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

* Inventor Nikola Tesla lived the last ten years of his life at the New Yorker Hotel until he died in his room in 1943.

He is also working on a documentary about the rock band The Stooges and co-writing a non-traditional opera about the inventor Nikola Tesla.

* 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer ( d. 1943 )

* Nikola Tesla Day

* 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1927 – Nikola Tesla exposed his six ( 6 ) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity

File: Tesla3. jpg | Nikola Tesla ( 1856-1943 ): developer of modern alternating current ( AC ) flow, improved on the dynamo, patents and theoretical work formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio, transformer and electric bulb and invented the Tesla coil.

Nikola Tesla experimentally demonstrated the transmission and radiation of radio frequency energy in 1892 and 1893 proposing that it might be used for the telecommunication of information.

In August 1917 Nikola Tesla outlined a concept for primitive radar units.

From left to right: Top row-Archimedes, Aristotle, Alhazen | Ibn al-Haytham, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ; Second row-Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel ; Third row-Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Henri Poincaré, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Max Planck ; Fourth row-Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Enrico Fermi ; Bottom row-J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking

As early as 1896, Nikola Tesla suggested that radio could be used to contact extraterrestrial life.

George Westinghouse and Edison became adversaries because of Edison's promotion of direct current ( DC ) for electric power distribution instead of the more easily transmitted alternating current ( AC ) system invented by Nikola Tesla and promoted by Westinghouse.

Another of Edison's assistants was Nikola Tesla.

The first medal was presented in 1909 to Elihu Thomson and, in a twist of fate, was awarded to Nikola Tesla in 1917.

His history with Nikola Tesla has also provided dramatic tension and is a theme returned to numerous times.

* Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla and other scientists and inventors showed the usefulness of wireless telegraphy, radiotelegraphy, or radio, beginning in the 1890s.

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913.

* January 7 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian-born American scientist ( b. 1856 )

* Nikola Tesla ( 1856 – 1943 )

Nikola Tesla ( 1856 – 1943 ) was a Serb-American physicist, mathematician, inventor, and electrical engineer.

* Nikola Tesla ( 1856 – 1943 ), a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer.

Smiljan is known best for being the birthplace of Nikola Tesla on 10 July 1856.

Tesla usually refers to Nikola Tesla ( 1856 – 1943 ), physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor

In 1886 a small chapel was built at the site, which was enlarged later by the 25th Army of Epiros. The church of Saint Nikola ( s ) was built in 1856 and for a short time provided a cemetery, however the cemetery was subject to flooding from melting snow, it was relocated to the church of Saint Dimitrios which was erected in 1859.

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician ( b. 1845 )

* 1988 – Nikola Fraňková, Czech tennis player

* 1974 – Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician ( Millencolin )

* 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.

* June 15 – Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter ( b. 1897 )

* May 21 – Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter ( d. 1945 )

* 1887 – 1889: Nikola Tesla of Smiljan, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria – Hungary files for patents on distribution of alternating current ( AC ) and polyphase induction motors and generators.

* July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian inventor ( d. 1943 )

Croatia goalkeeper Mirko Alilović saved a shot from Nikola Karabatic with six seconds to go as Croatia won 24 – 23.

* 1888 – Nikola Tesla patents the induction motor ().

In the beginning of the 20th century Bulgaria was famous for two of the best wrestlers in the world – Dan Kolov and Nikola Petroff.

* November 18 – Nikola Zrinski, Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet ( born 1620 )

Nikola Bošković ( 1642 – 1721 ), the father of the famous Ragusan scientist Ruđer Bošković ( 1711 – 1787 ), migrated to Novi Pazar, where he spent the last years of his life.

* Nikola Hristić ( 1818 – 1911 ), Serbian politician

* Nikola Nešković ( 1739 – 1775 ), Serbian painter

His daughter Caroline walked onto the University of Alabama Women's Rowing Team for the 2011 – 2012 academic year, and his daughter Nikola enjoys eventing horses.

Nikola Šubić Zrinski () or Miklós Zrínyi () ( Zrin, 1508 – Szigetvár, September 7, 1566 ), was a Croatian nobleman and general in service of Habsburg Monarchy, ban of Croatia from 1542 to 1556, and member of the Zrinski noble family.

Under the guidance of new coach Nikola Pilić, after over three months away from the tour due to injury, Dokic qualified for a $ 10, 000 tournament and reached the semifinals of the main draw before losing to Astrid Besser 3 – 6, 6 – 3, 7 – 6.