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LifestreamAlmost blinked and missed it, but July 10 marked a rather noteworthy anniversary of sorts.
Croats and Serbs united on Monday in celebrating late scientist Nikola Tesla, hailing him as a symbol of ethnic tolerance badly needed in the Balkans.
Tesla was born 150 years ago this day in this small village at the foot of Mt Velebit in a Serb area of Croatia. He made most of his discoveries on electricity in the United States.
His birthplace saw some of the fiercest fighting in Croatia’s 1991-95 independence war with local ethnic Serb rebels. Tesla’s monument was blown up during the war, his house neglected by the nationalist regime that ruled until 2000.
Also honoured by Boing Boing, Damn Interesting.
10 July 2006 marks what would be the 150th birthday of the great inventor Nikola Tesla. For those who could make it, Tesla is immortalized as a statue at Niagara, New York depicting the master of lighting; a Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia; and he is featured on the Serbian 100 dinar banknote. For those who cannot reach such exotic locales, later this year a movie by Christopher Nolan (who really should be working on a follow up to “Batman Begins”) will depict David Bowie as the good Mr Tesla.
