157 years since birth of Nikola Tesla

Truly a man ahead of his time and sadly under appreciated for the potential of his ideas.

Truly a man ahead of his time and sadly under appreciated for the potential of his ideas
yes.

For once lets put our sili differences on one side and congratulate the man who has doen so much for humanity.

Thank you Nikola Tesla, an amazing personality, according to many documanetires that I saw about him.

Danilo,
I had no idea that you were a fisherman.

Tesla was an inferior American when compared to Edison because he was a Serb.

Just as Danilo is a Serbian and not a Serb.

Danilo,
Growing up in NA and being culturally raised anglo saxon does't make you an anglo now does it. Therefore, you must be of some ethnically genetic stock. My guess would be that you probably have some Illyrian or Albanian DNA because you have this natural ability to bash all that is Serbian.

Maybe you happened to spend the other 10 percent of your life living in the Middle East. Your 10 percent far outweighs the values of your 90 percent upbringing.

Very intelligent man, without him I would probably be trying to read this article in the dark.
Who knows maybe in 10000 years we too may invent something of significance.

Maybe symptomatic that the Serbian person who achieved most in science until nowadays lived more than 100 years ago and had to go to western European countries and the USA to do his work and make his inventions.

Poor Danilo.

While Tesla had some psychological issues, unlike Danilo, Tesla did not experience self-loathing

Dark and dismal life you lead, Danilo.

I came here just to see how quickly an argument over Tesla's identity would appear. Not long at all :)

Happy Birthday to an ethnic Serb from the Austro-Hungarian Krajina region who became what he became through hard work, ingenuity, and more than a few American philanthropists to help him along the way. From wireless technology to death rays to pigeons, to numbers divisible by 3, he was truly an eccentric man that very few can match.

Crybaby- his father was a Serbian orthodox priest and mother Serb. I think that makes him Serb, but as everything belongs to Albania perhaps I am wrong. Another great Serb. Happy birthday tesla.

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ). So does this mean that the citizens of Sandzak should represent Turkey or Hungarians in Vojvodina representing Hungry proper or even Presevani representing Albania. Come on...If you live in that country thats who you represent. You carry the flag of the country you live in. Tesla has no history in Serbia whats so ever, maybe the odd speech to a couple of 'seljaks'.
(Bam Bam, 11 July 2013 12:00)


Tesla never lived in Serbia? You never lived in Croatia. Does that not make you a Croat? Worse, does that negate your Croatian patriotism?

Tesla "chose" to reside among Catholics? How does someone choose to be born where they are? Do you live in a commune of Croatian expats?

Tesla was a Serb. Plain and simple. Sorry that the greatest thing that ever came out of Croatia was an ethnic Serb. Sorry that Croatia at the time was just a provincial backwater of Austria-Hungary.

Sorry that you and other Americans of debatable Croatian ancestry have such an inferiority complex to embarrass yourselves trying to prove the ethnicity of someone you've never met, and would have little appreciation for if he was never popular or contributory to society. Sorry that the only notable Croats that come out of Croatia are war criminals, second-rate singers, corrupt politicians, and maybe an athlete or two.

I have personally read Tesla's autobiography and a couple of biographies about his life and I think it is hilarious for anybody to claim that the father who was a Serbian Orthodox priest and a mother who was the daughter of a of a Serbian Orthodox priest did not give birth to a Serbian son even if the birth took place on Mars.I implore anybody who says otherwise to go to Amazon order the books and read before they make fools of themselves and this is advice from a non Serb by the way.

Just as Danilo is a Serbian and not a Serb.
(Another Canadian Serb, 10 July 2013 12:24)


hmmm. I'm not sure either describe me well. I have Serbian decendancy, but since I was born and lived 90% of my life in North America and have no Serbian citizenship, I'm not sure "A Serbian" describes me accurately at all. I don't mind if you call me "a Serb" based on my decendancy, I just don't find it particularly accurate, as I'm culturally anglo-saxon, like most people posting on here.

Roger7 and just another Serb, you're bashing Danilo simply because he disagrees with your views and has the decency to point out the wrong.
I don't expect much from the two of you.

As far as Tesla, he was a true genius. Some claim he's of Serb, others Croat, and some say he's half-and-half. I don't care.

He's made life much easier and enjoyable for billions of people and that's all that matters!

It looks that a serb without -ich in his last name is very successful and well rescpected everywhere in the world for his contribution.

U have my respect Nikola Tesla!

@ danilo say what you want you are not Serb

Does Elon Musk from California pay royalties to anybody for calling his company Tesla Motor Co? Nikola Tesla was a one in a billion genius and his contributions are greatly appreciated among people who are in the scientific field.

A truly great American!

Nikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.

A truly great American!
(Danilo, 10 July 2013 10:52)
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Father a Serbian Orthodox priest, mother Serbian, hm, which part makes him American? He wasn't even born there?
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As far as Tesla, he was a true genius. Some claim he's of Serb, others Croat, and some say he's half-and-half. I don't care.
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Same answer that I gave to Danilo, what makes him half-and-half? If both parents are Serbs how can he be half-and-half?
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Nikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.
(Lenard, 10 July 2013 21:15)
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I seriously doubt that he would call himself Croatian. Seeing how Croatia has nobody of any significance you guys have to steal one of ours.
If you think that Orthodox population of Krajina or anywhere in Croatia are Croatians why did you guys expell them? Why bomb your own especially when they are trying to leave? Were you trying to make them stay in Croatia? You know Tesla was a Serb just like all the Serbs your lot expelled during the 90s? You are just so desperate to have someone to claim as your own. Tesla was not confused. He knew who he was.

Bam Bam, his nationality is whats most important and Tesla was a proud serbian patriot.
Here's what Tesla says about his ethnicity on June 1st 1892, in Serbian capital Belgrade: "Ako se te moje nade ispune, najslađa misao biće mi da je to djelo jednog Srbina. Živjelo Srpstvo!" (If these hopes of mine fulfill, the sweetest thought to me will be that it was the work of a Serb. Long live Serbdom!) BRANIMIR JOVANOVIĆ, "Nikola Tesla", Belgrade 1997. Lie #3.
"Ja sam, kao što vidite i čujete ostao Srbin i preko mora, gde se ispitivanjima bavim. To isto treba da budete i vi i da svojim znanjem i radom podižete slavu Srpstva u svetu." (As you can see and hear, I remained a Serb far across the seas, where I do my research. This also what you should remain, and to raise the glory of Serbdom by your knowledge and work). An excerpt of Tesla's speech to Serbian University students in Belgrade, June 1st 1892.


Last but not least he wasnt of "croat-serbian" origin he was 100%serb origin, his father was an orthodox priest and his mother daughter of an orthodox priest.

A truly great American!
(Danilo, 10 July 2013 10:52)

lmaoooo, you are truly outside of your mind.

He was a serbian genius. His story is amazing and always will be.

It is perhaps indicative that both Milosevic and Kostunica preferred to dabble in iconoclastic nationalism of the mythical sort rather than to recognise the by far single most important Serb actual contribution to modern civilization - as the Belgrade Airport was only renamed in Tesla's honour in 2006.

Then again, also SANU seemed for years less preoccupied with Serb contribution to international academic and scientific progress than with whether a certain Kosovo-Serb farmer had inserted a bottle up his rear for pure self-gratification, or not.

Not a surprise Croats are trying to cash in on Tesla's name. All the best Croats tend to be ethnic Serbs.

Serbia's greatest hero is a Croatian born American Nerd who was educated in Hugary, Asutria and France, he is famous for developing something which had already been developed by someone else before him lol.

Did he ever step foot in Serbia?

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!
(Haitian, 11 July 2013 14:01)
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Wow, jealous much?

He is probably the only respectable serb the world knows of. The rest: a bunch of brainwashed ultra nationalists.

Nikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.
(Lenard, 10 July 2013 21:15)


Based on this boofheads understanding, Dalmatian architecture was not Roman or Venetian or Italian but Croatian. As I said before it is now common knowledge that the Pyramids were built by Croatian Egyptians and that the hanging gardens of Babylon were made by Croatian Assyrians.

For the record Tesla went to the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, Austria and not Zagreb University. Note how this clown claims that “religiosity didn’t matter to much at that time”. For your information at that time if you did not attend at Catholic Church every Sunday you would have the local Priest at your door asking questions and if you had employment you would have been in danger of becoming jobless. That’s how “religiosity didn’t matter”. Funny how these Croats want to desperately accept Telsla as one of their won but hate every other Serb in sight.

Tesla was a Serb from head to toe and Croatia never existed when this man was walking around in Krajina.

Danilo,
Tesla himself said that he is ethnic Serb, so who are you to dispute his words. Here are words of Nikola Tesla: "I am equally proud on my Serb origin and my croatian homeland.
Thats how american he was. End of story.

Danilo,
Here's what Tesla says about his ethnicity on June 1st 1892, in Serbian capital Belgrade: "Ako se te moje nade ispune, najslađa misao biće mi da je to djelo jednog Srbina. Živjelo Srpstvo!" (If these hopes of mine fulfill, the sweetest thought to me will be that it was the work of a Serb. Long live Serbdom!) BRANIMIR JOVANOVIĆ, "Nikola Tesla", Belgrade 1997. Lie #3.

Guy's an American (with roots elsewhere, like many Americans).

Cheers to the greatest American inventor!
(Danilo, 10 July 2013 23:56)
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He wasn't a second, third or even a fourth generation American you fool.
He was born outside of America. His Serbian blood ran through his veins.
How jealous are you, you little pathetic Croat?
Just because you guys don't have anyone to speak of doesn't mean you will succeed in stealing ours. Everyone knows who Tesla was. Mate, Tesla was as Croatian as my dog is Serbian and she happens to be a German Shepherd.

Nikola Tesla is Croatian of Croato-Serbian ancestry. The country of origin recieves the credit. I've never seen Tiger Woods represent Thailand in a golf tournament, he's American because thats where he was born and lives even though he's eyes are 3 quarters closed. The Serbs even tried to claim Ivo Andric as their own..The last time I checked Ivo is a Catholic name....Balkan mentality never seems to suprise me.
(Bam Bam, 11 July 2013 10:05)

In his book Bridge over the River Drina Ivo Andric described Croats as (kuferasi) vagabonds who have no history – try reading it. Andric was of mixed ethnic origins and yes the name Ivo is a Croat name, but when interviewed by the man who translated his works into English, Lovett Edwards – academic and author fluent in Serbo-Croatian, he recorded in 1959 that “Dr Ivo Andric is himself a Serb and Bosnian”. Andric said that he saw himself as a Serb.
Andric lived, worked and died in Belgrade not Zagreb. When Tesla was walking around in that part of the world there was no Croatia. To call Tesla a Croat is the same as Serbs calling the Emperor Constantine the Great a Serb because he was born in Nis. That’s the difference between Serbs and Croats – Serbs never claim others as their own whereas you hates Serbs but make the exception for Tesla because he would make your lot look good - pathetic but typical Croat.

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ).

He lived in austro-ungaria. And it doesnt matter where he lived, one doesnt have to live in Serbia to be a serb. I was born and raised in Sweden by serb parents and consider myself 100%serb just like most serbs that live in the diaspora. In fact, serbs in the diaspora are in many cases bigger patriots then serbs who live in Serbia. And yes he was a great serbian patriot because he said he was a serb everywhere he went. You can be how jealous you want, that doesnt change his identity. Tell me one thing, if his father was a serb orthodox priest and his mother a daughter of an orthodox priest how is it possible that you can twist it into that he was croat?And if he was croat, why did you demolish Smiljane and burn his house to the ground during the war?Keep your lies to yourself, no one else will believe them.

ikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.
(Lenard, 10 July 2013 21:15)

How can he be a croat when his father was a orthodox priest?He said he is proud of his serbian nationality and his croat homeland. Just because he was born in croatia that doesnt make him croat or do you figure the serbs from Krajina to be croat?Nikola Tesla was 100000 percent SERB.

Nikola Tesla is Croatian of Croato-Serbian ancestry. The country of origin recieves the credit. I've never seen Tiger Woods represent Thailand in a golf tournament, he's American because thats where he was born and lives even though he's eyes are 3 quarters closed. The Serbs even tried to claim Ivo Andric as their own..The last time I checked Ivo is a Catholic name....Balkan mentality never seems to suprise me.

International community knows him as a Serb. Who cares what Croatians thin.

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ).

You dont have to live in Serbia to be a serb patriot. And haitian yes he held several seminars for students at the Belgrade University, faculty of mathematics and electrotechnique. And he didnt live among catholics in Croatia, he was born and raised in Krajina that then had a 99%serb population.

Not true Croatians are noble prize winers ,inventors ,statesmen etc [link]/ [link]
(Lenard, 11 July 2013 19:46)

Lenard, this may win you an argument in the circles you associate with, but providing a link from Stormfront is not going to win you friends in the wider world.

Your second link is basically message board, but fine. Somehow it tries real hard to prove Tesla was a Croat.

Andric and Mestrovic openly identified themselves as Yugoslavs.

The site even lays claim to Marco Polo being Croat.

Let me guess: Diocletian was Croat too because Split used to be Spalato? And I suppose the Colosseum in Pula is an example of early Croatian architecture?

Thanks for the chuckle.

Lenard

You are so funny

Lets honor one of the greatest scientists of all times.

As for B92, it has to correct the title: "BELGRADE -- Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in 1856 in Smiljan, Austria-Hungary - the modern-day territory of Croatia"

Croatia is not a territory, but a country. The title should have said: "...Austria-Hungary - in modern-day Croatia" or "...Austria-Hungary - in the territory of modern-day Croatia"

Lets be professional and avoid misunderstandings.

If ethnicity is so important why do the Serbs continue to spend $500,000 Euros of Serbian tax payers money a year maintaining Tito's tomb who isn't even Serbian or Orthodox.
(Political Mastermind Alb., 11 July 2013 12:18)
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Serbs don't claim that Tito was a Serb. Tito was the president of Yugoslavia and and he resided in Belgrade. Serbs are honouring that title.
You are comparing apples with oranges. Are you trying to say that if someone is not of the same ethnicity as you but has held a position of respect they should not be remembered or honoured?

Do tell us what you are trying to say.

If ethnicity is so important why do the Serbs continue to spend $500,000 Euros of Serbian tax payers money a year maintaining Tito's tomb who isn't even Serbian or Orthodox.

Serbia's greatest hero is a Croatian born American Nerd who was educated in Hugary, Asutria and France, he is famous for developing something which had already been developed by someone else before him lol.

Did he ever step foot in Serbia?

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

I don't understand why all you croatians and your Serb hating band wagoners are arguing over the memory of one dead Serb from Krajina who died in America of natural causes at a ripe old age, when there were hundreds of thousands of Serbs exterminated by croatians, which was actual croatian state policy, whose deaths are comemorated with thousands of croats singing along with that fool perkovic at thompson concerts, glorifying Jasenovac, and the Neretva river full of Serb corpses

,,,BTW, Marko Perkovic, what a very Serb sounding name, could he be a Serb?, uhhhhh creepy!!!

You see, croatia does have genuine croatian world famous people, so there is no need to claim Serbian geniuses as your own. Be proud of that redneck Perkovic and also your world famous Nazi war criminals, your history is full of them, spread the word and show the world what croats have contributed to culture and history, surely your not ashamed of your finest!

lmaoooo, you are truly outside of your mind.
(Ari Gold, 10 July 2013 19:24)


Why?

He lived most of his life in America. He died in America. He was an American citizen. All of his accomplishments were in America. The story of him getting ripped off by his partners is an American one. His story is an American story.

Guy's an American (with roots elsewhere, like many Americans).

Cheers to the greatest American inventor!

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ). So does this mean that the citizens of Sandzak should represent Turkey or Hungarians in Vojvodina representing Hungry proper or even Presevani representing Albania. Come on...If you live in that country thats who you represent. You carry the flag of the country you live in. Tesla has no history in Serbia whats so ever, maybe the odd speech to a couple of 'seljaks'.

@Lenard
Why no mention of father Draganovic, the famous catholic priest who harboured and organised the smuggling of convicted Nazi war criminals to South America, through the "Rat Lines"!, he didn't get a NOBEL prize, but it was mighty NOBLE of him get them to safety and help prepare for the third reichs counter attack, maybe we could give him the inaugural "father Draganovic Prize for keeping the third riech dream alive" award.
,,, there you go, another great croat you can all be proud of.

@Peggy........Why on gods earth would you honor someone from your country who is not Serbian or Orthodox. Tito was a thug and war criminal and still the Serbs continue to honor him like he was some sort of god. I ask you Peggy why do Serbs continue to allow dust to gather on Rankovic's coffin but cry when its Tito birthday.

Sorry that you and other Americans of debatable Croatian ancestry have such an inferiority complex to embarrass yourselves trying to prove the ethnicity of someone you've never met, and would have little appreciation for if he was never popular or contributory to society. Sorry that the only notable Croats that come out of Croatia are war criminals, second-rate singers, corrupt politicians, and maybe an athlete or two.
(Pebbles, 11 July 2013 15:58) Not true Croatians are noble prize winers ,inventors ,statesmen etc http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t422928/ http://forum.slavorum.com/index.php?topic=1506.0

@Haitian: When Tesla was inventing radio you were still trying to light a fire with rocks. @le-nerd and every ignorant croat, Tesla was a Serb,end of story. You are trying to steal Tesla from Serbia, just like fyrom tries to steal Alexander The Great from Greece.

This guy was the N°1 top dreamer of his time.
Who care about his nationality, patriot or not, it is irrelevant !
He had, and we should all have, a planetary point a view, mankind on a sphere, where frontiers are obviously irrelevant in the long run.
With his knowledge and his beliefs in extra-terrestrial life, he couldn't have think differently than this.

Check out this awesome song about Tesla : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xppeFQsahBM

Boy, some of you have terrible reading comprehension. either that or you like making stuff up.

I never claimed that Tesla wasn't of Serbian ethnicity.

I am claiming that "American" better describes his life story.

A truly great American!

Just as Danilo is a Serbian and not a Serb.
(Another Canadian Serb, 10 July 2013 12:24)


hmmm. I'm not sure either describe me well. I have Serbian decendancy, but since I was born and lived 90% of my life in North America and have no Serbian citizenship, I'm not sure "A Serbian" describes me accurately at all. I don't mind if you call me "a Serb" based on my decendancy, I just don't find it particularly accurate, as I'm culturally anglo-saxon, like most people posting on here.

Nikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.

It is perhaps indicative that both Milosevic and Kostunica preferred to dabble in iconoclastic nationalism of the mythical sort rather than to recognise the by far single most important Serb actual contribution to modern civilization - as the Belgrade Airport was only renamed in Tesla's honour in 2006.

Then again, also SANU seemed for years less preoccupied with Serb contribution to international academic and scientific progress than with whether a certain Kosovo-Serb farmer had inserted a bottle up his rear for pure self-gratification, or not.

He is probably the only respectable serb the world knows of. The rest: a bunch of brainwashed ultra nationalists.

Danilo,
Growing up in NA and being culturally raised anglo saxon does't make you an anglo now does it. Therefore, you must be of some ethnically genetic stock. My guess would be that you probably have some Illyrian or Albanian DNA because you have this natural ability to bash all that is Serbian.

Maybe you happened to spend the other 10 percent of your life living in the Middle East. Your 10 percent far outweighs the values of your 90 percent upbringing.

Roger7 and just another Serb, you're bashing Danilo simply because he disagrees with your views and has the decency to point out the wrong.
I don't expect much from the two of you.

As far as Tesla, he was a true genius. Some claim he's of Serb, others Croat, and some say he's half-and-half. I don't care.

He's made life much easier and enjoyable for billions of people and that's all that matters!

Nikola Tesla is Croatian of Croato-Serbian ancestry. The country of origin recieves the credit. I've never seen Tiger Woods represent Thailand in a golf tournament, he's American because thats where he was born and lives even though he's eyes are 3 quarters closed. The Serbs even tried to claim Ivo Andric as their own..The last time I checked Ivo is a Catholic name....Balkan mentality never seems to suprise me.

Poor Danilo.

While Tesla had some psychological issues, unlike Danilo, Tesla did not experience self-loathing

Dark and dismal life you lead, Danilo.

It looks that a serb without -ich in his last name is very successful and well rescpected everywhere in the world for his contribution.

U have my respect Nikola Tesla!

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ). So does this mean that the citizens of Sandzak should represent Turkey or Hungarians in Vojvodina representing Hungry proper or even Presevani representing Albania. Come on...If you live in that country thats who you represent. You carry the flag of the country you live in. Tesla has no history in Serbia whats so ever, maybe the odd speech to a couple of 'seljaks'.

Serbia's greatest hero is a Croatian born American Nerd who was educated in Hugary, Asutria and France, he is famous for developing something which had already been developed by someone else before him lol.

Did he ever step foot in Serbia?

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

Very intelligent man, without him I would probably be trying to read this article in the dark.
Who knows maybe in 10000 years we too may invent something of significance.

Maybe symptomatic that the Serbian person who achieved most in science until nowadays lived more than 100 years ago and had to go to western European countries and the USA to do his work and make his inventions.

Danilo,
I had no idea that you were a fisherman.

Tesla was an inferior American when compared to Edison because he was a Serb.

Just as Danilo is a Serbian and not a Serb.

A truly great American!
(Danilo, 10 July 2013 10:52)

lmaoooo, you are truly outside of your mind.

Guy's an American (with roots elsewhere, like many Americans).

Cheers to the greatest American inventor!
(Danilo, 10 July 2013 23:56)
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He wasn't a second, third or even a fourth generation American you fool.
He was born outside of America. His Serbian blood ran through his veins.
How jealous are you, you little pathetic Croat?
Just because you guys don't have anyone to speak of doesn't mean you will succeed in stealing ours. Everyone knows who Tesla was. Mate, Tesla was as Croatian as my dog is Serbian and she happens to be a German Shepherd.

@ danilo say what you want you are not Serb

lmaoooo, you are truly outside of your mind.
(Ari Gold, 10 July 2013 19:24)


Why?

He lived most of his life in America. He died in America. He was an American citizen. All of his accomplishments were in America. The story of him getting ripped off by his partners is an American one. His story is an American story.

Guy's an American (with roots elsewhere, like many Americans).

Cheers to the greatest American inventor!

A truly great American!
(Danilo, 10 July 2013 10:52)
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Father a Serbian Orthodox priest, mother Serbian, hm, which part makes him American? He wasn't even born there?
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As far as Tesla, he was a true genius. Some claim he's of Serb, others Croat, and some say he's half-and-half. I don't care.
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Same answer that I gave to Danilo, what makes him half-and-half? If both parents are Serbs how can he be half-and-half?
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Nikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.
(Lenard, 10 July 2013 21:15)
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I seriously doubt that he would call himself Croatian. Seeing how Croatia has nobody of any significance you guys have to steal one of ours.
If you think that Orthodox population of Krajina or anywhere in Croatia are Croatians why did you guys expell them? Why bomb your own especially when they are trying to leave? Were you trying to make them stay in Croatia? You know Tesla was a Serb just like all the Serbs your lot expelled during the 90s? You are just so desperate to have someone to claim as your own. Tesla was not confused. He knew who he was.

Sorry that you and other Americans of debatable Croatian ancestry have such an inferiority complex to embarrass yourselves trying to prove the ethnicity of someone you've never met, and would have little appreciation for if he was never popular or contributory to society. Sorry that the only notable Croats that come out of Croatia are war criminals, second-rate singers, corrupt politicians, and maybe an athlete or two.
(Pebbles, 11 July 2013 15:58) Not true Croatians are noble prize winers ,inventors ,statesmen etc http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t422928/ http://forum.slavorum.com/index.php?topic=1506.0

Boy, some of you have terrible reading comprehension. either that or you like making stuff up.

I never claimed that Tesla wasn't of Serbian ethnicity.

I am claiming that "American" better describes his life story.

Not a surprise Croats are trying to cash in on Tesla's name. All the best Croats tend to be ethnic Serbs.

Nikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.
(Lenard, 10 July 2013 21:15)


Based on this boofheads understanding, Dalmatian architecture was not Roman or Venetian or Italian but Croatian. As I said before it is now common knowledge that the Pyramids were built by Croatian Egyptians and that the hanging gardens of Babylon were made by Croatian Assyrians.

For the record Tesla went to the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, Austria and not Zagreb University. Note how this clown claims that “religiosity didn’t matter to much at that time”. For your information at that time if you did not attend at Catholic Church every Sunday you would have the local Priest at your door asking questions and if you had employment you would have been in danger of becoming jobless. That’s how “religiosity didn’t matter”. Funny how these Croats want to desperately accept Telsla as one of their won but hate every other Serb in sight.

Tesla was a Serb from head to toe and Croatia never existed when this man was walking around in Krajina.

Serbia's greatest hero is a Croatian born American Nerd who was educated in Hugary, Asutria and France, he is famous for developing something which had already been developed by someone else before him lol.

Did he ever step foot in Serbia?

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!
(Haitian, 11 July 2013 14:01)
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Wow, jealous much?

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ).

You dont have to live in Serbia to be a serb patriot. And haitian yes he held several seminars for students at the Belgrade University, faculty of mathematics and electrotechnique. And he didnt live among catholics in Croatia, he was born and raised in Krajina that then had a 99%serb population.

Crybaby- his father was a Serbian orthodox priest and mother Serb. I think that makes him Serb, but as everything belongs to Albania perhaps I am wrong. Another great Serb. Happy birthday tesla.

Lenard

You are so funny

Danilo,
Tesla himself said that he is ethnic Serb, so who are you to dispute his words. Here are words of Nikola Tesla: "I am equally proud on my Serb origin and my croatian homeland.
Thats how american he was. End of story.

Danilo,
Here's what Tesla says about his ethnicity on June 1st 1892, in Serbian capital Belgrade: "Ako se te moje nade ispune, najslađa misao biće mi da je to djelo jednog Srbina. Živjelo Srpstvo!" (If these hopes of mine fulfill, the sweetest thought to me will be that it was the work of a Serb. Long live Serbdom!) BRANIMIR JOVANOVIĆ, "Nikola Tesla", Belgrade 1997. Lie #3.

Bam Bam, his nationality is whats most important and Tesla was a proud serbian patriot.
Here's what Tesla says about his ethnicity on June 1st 1892, in Serbian capital Belgrade: "Ako se te moje nade ispune, najslađa misao biće mi da je to djelo jednog Srbina. Živjelo Srpstvo!" (If these hopes of mine fulfill, the sweetest thought to me will be that it was the work of a Serb. Long live Serbdom!) BRANIMIR JOVANOVIĆ, "Nikola Tesla", Belgrade 1997. Lie #3.
"Ja sam, kao što vidite i čujete ostao Srbin i preko mora, gde se ispitivanjima bavim. To isto treba da budete i vi i da svojim znanjem i radom podižete slavu Srpstva u svetu." (As you can see and hear, I remained a Serb far across the seas, where I do my research. This also what you should remain, and to raise the glory of Serbdom by your knowledge and work). An excerpt of Tesla's speech to Serbian University students in Belgrade, June 1st 1892.


Last but not least he wasnt of "croat-serbian" origin he was 100%serb origin, his father was an orthodox priest and his mother daughter of an orthodox priest.

Nikola Tesla is Croatian of Croato-Serbian ancestry. The country of origin recieves the credit. I've never seen Tiger Woods represent Thailand in a golf tournament, he's American because thats where he was born and lives even though he's eyes are 3 quarters closed. The Serbs even tried to claim Ivo Andric as their own..The last time I checked Ivo is a Catholic name....Balkan mentality never seems to suprise me.
(Bam Bam, 11 July 2013 10:05)

In his book Bridge over the River Drina Ivo Andric described Croats as (kuferasi) vagabonds who have no history – try reading it. Andric was of mixed ethnic origins and yes the name Ivo is a Croat name, but when interviewed by the man who translated his works into English, Lovett Edwards – academic and author fluent in Serbo-Croatian, he recorded in 1959 that “Dr Ivo Andric is himself a Serb and Bosnian”. Andric said that he saw himself as a Serb.
Andric lived, worked and died in Belgrade not Zagreb. When Tesla was walking around in that part of the world there was no Croatia. To call Tesla a Croat is the same as Serbs calling the Emperor Constantine the Great a Serb because he was born in Nis. That’s the difference between Serbs and Croats – Serbs never claim others as their own whereas you hates Serbs but make the exception for Tesla because he would make your lot look good - pathetic but typical Croat.

If ethnicity is so important why do the Serbs continue to spend $500,000 Euros of Serbian tax payers money a year maintaining Tito's tomb who isn't even Serbian or Orthodox.
(Political Mastermind Alb., 11 July 2013 12:18)
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Serbs don't claim that Tito was a Serb. Tito was the president of Yugoslavia and and he resided in Belgrade. Serbs are honouring that title.
You are comparing apples with oranges. Are you trying to say that if someone is not of the same ethnicity as you but has held a position of respect they should not be remembered or honoured?

Do tell us what you are trying to say.

International community knows him as a Serb. Who cares what Croatians thin.

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ).

He lived in austro-ungaria. And it doesnt matter where he lived, one doesnt have to live in Serbia to be a serb. I was born and raised in Sweden by serb parents and consider myself 100%serb just like most serbs that live in the diaspora. In fact, serbs in the diaspora are in many cases bigger patriots then serbs who live in Serbia. And yes he was a great serbian patriot because he said he was a serb everywhere he went. You can be how jealous you want, that doesnt change his identity. Tell me one thing, if his father was a serb orthodox priest and his mother a daughter of an orthodox priest how is it possible that you can twist it into that he was croat?And if he was croat, why did you demolish Smiljane and burn his house to the ground during the war?Keep your lies to yourself, no one else will believe them.

Tesla was not a patriot. Tesla never lived in Serbia. He chose to reside amongst Catholics (Croatia / New York ). So does this mean that the citizens of Sandzak should represent Turkey or Hungarians in Vojvodina representing Hungry proper or even Presevani representing Albania. Come on...If you live in that country thats who you represent. You carry the flag of the country you live in. Tesla has no history in Serbia whats so ever, maybe the odd speech to a couple of 'seljaks'.
(Bam Bam, 11 July 2013 12:00)


Tesla never lived in Serbia? You never lived in Croatia. Does that not make you a Croat? Worse, does that negate your Croatian patriotism?

Tesla "chose" to reside among Catholics? How does someone choose to be born where they are? Do you live in a commune of Croatian expats?

Tesla was a Serb. Plain and simple. Sorry that the greatest thing that ever came out of Croatia was an ethnic Serb. Sorry that Croatia at the time was just a provincial backwater of Austria-Hungary.

Sorry that you and other Americans of debatable Croatian ancestry have such an inferiority complex to embarrass yourselves trying to prove the ethnicity of someone you've never met, and would have little appreciation for if he was never popular or contributory to society. Sorry that the only notable Croats that come out of Croatia are war criminals, second-rate singers, corrupt politicians, and maybe an athlete or two.

I have personally read Tesla's autobiography and a couple of biographies about his life and I think it is hilarious for anybody to claim that the father who was a Serbian Orthodox priest and a mother who was the daughter of a of a Serbian Orthodox priest did not give birth to a Serbian son even if the birth took place on Mars.I implore anybody who says otherwise to go to Amazon order the books and read before they make fools of themselves and this is advice from a non Serb by the way.

@Lenard
Why no mention of father Draganovic, the famous catholic priest who harboured and organised the smuggling of convicted Nazi war criminals to South America, through the "Rat Lines"!, he didn't get a NOBEL prize, but it was mighty NOBLE of him get them to safety and help prepare for the third reichs counter attack, maybe we could give him the inaugural "father Draganovic Prize for keeping the third riech dream alive" award.
,,, there you go, another great croat you can all be proud of.

If ethnicity is so important why do the Serbs continue to spend $500,000 Euros of Serbian tax payers money a year maintaining Tito's tomb who isn't even Serbian or Orthodox.

Lets honor one of the greatest scientists of all times.

As for B92, it has to correct the title: "BELGRADE -- Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in 1856 in Smiljan, Austria-Hungary - the modern-day territory of Croatia"

Croatia is not a territory, but a country. The title should have said: "...Austria-Hungary - in modern-day Croatia" or "...Austria-Hungary - in the territory of modern-day Croatia"

Lets be professional and avoid misunderstandings.

Not true Croatians are noble prize winers ,inventors ,statesmen etc [link]/ [link]
(Lenard, 11 July 2013 19:46)

Lenard, this may win you an argument in the circles you associate with, but providing a link from Stormfront is not going to win you friends in the wider world.

Your second link is basically message board, but fine. Somehow it tries real hard to prove Tesla was a Croat.

Andric and Mestrovic openly identified themselves as Yugoslavs.

The site even lays claim to Marco Polo being Croat.

Let me guess: Diocletian was Croat too because Split used to be Spalato? And I suppose the Colosseum in Pula is an example of early Croatian architecture?

Thanks for the chuckle.

This guy was the N°1 top dreamer of his time.
Who care about his nationality, patriot or not, it is irrelevant !
He had, and we should all have, a planetary point a view, mankind on a sphere, where frontiers are obviously irrelevant in the long run.
With his knowledge and his beliefs in extra-terrestrial life, he couldn't have think differently than this.

Check out this awesome song about Tesla : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xppeFQsahBM

@Peggy........Why on gods earth would you honor someone from your country who is not Serbian or Orthodox. Tito was a thug and war criminal and still the Serbs continue to honor him like he was some sort of god. I ask you Peggy why do Serbs continue to allow dust to gather on Rankovic's coffin but cry when its Tito birthday.

I came here just to see how quickly an argument over Tesla's identity would appear. Not long at all :)

Happy Birthday to an ethnic Serb from the Austro-Hungarian Krajina region who became what he became through hard work, ingenuity, and more than a few American philanthropists to help him along the way. From wireless technology to death rays to pigeons, to numbers divisible by 3, he was truly an eccentric man that very few can match.

Does Elon Musk from California pay royalties to anybody for calling his company Tesla Motor Co? Nikola Tesla was a one in a billion genius and his contributions are greatly appreciated among people who are in the scientific field.

ikola Tesla was Croatian born in Croatia went to school and universety of Zagreb even said Croatia my home. Just got confused with religousity didn`t matter to much at that time didn`t practise it was not religous.
(Lenard, 10 July 2013 21:15)

How can he be a croat when his father was a orthodox priest?He said he is proud of his serbian nationality and his croat homeland. Just because he was born in croatia that doesnt make him croat or do you figure the serbs from Krajina to be croat?Nikola Tesla was 100000 percent SERB.

He was a serbian genius. His story is amazing and always will be.

I don't understand why all you croatians and your Serb hating band wagoners are arguing over the memory of one dead Serb from Krajina who died in America of natural causes at a ripe old age, when there were hundreds of thousands of Serbs exterminated by croatians, which was actual croatian state policy, whose deaths are comemorated with thousands of croats singing along with that fool perkovic at thompson concerts, glorifying Jasenovac, and the Neretva river full of Serb corpses

,,,BTW, Marko Perkovic, what a very Serb sounding name, could he be a Serb?, uhhhhh creepy!!!

You see, croatia does have genuine croatian world famous people, so there is no need to claim Serbian geniuses as your own. Be proud of that redneck Perkovic and also your world famous Nazi war criminals, your history is full of them, spread the word and show the world what croats have contributed to culture and history, surely your not ashamed of your finest!

Truly a man ahead of his time and sadly under appreciated for the potential of his ideas.

@Haitian: When Tesla was inventing radio you were still trying to light a fire with rocks. @le-nerd and every ignorant croat, Tesla was a Serb,end of story. You are trying to steal Tesla from Serbia, just like fyrom tries to steal Alexander The Great from Greece.

Truly a man ahead of his time and sadly under appreciated for the potential of his ideas
yes.

For once lets put our sili differences on one side and congratulate the man who has doen so much for humanity.

Thank you Nikola Tesla, an amazing personality, according to many documanetires that I saw about him.