TESLA's FIRST JOB AS A TEACHER.

After his university flop, Nikola returns to his home town, Gospić. 

In April of that same year, Nikola’s father dies and he has to start  working as a teacher in his old school, the "Real Gymnasium" in Gospić. 

Tesla taught, but did not want this to be his future.

EDISON, THE TRAIN HERO!!!

14-year-old Edison saved 3-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from a runaway train at Port Huron station. After saving him, the child's father, JU Mackenzie, was so grateful that he taught Edison how to operate the telegraph machine.

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TESLA`s UNIVERSITY YEARS HAD THEIR UPS AND DOWNS.

In 1875 Nicola Tesla began to study electrical engineering in Graz University of Technology, one of the best engineering schools in Europe at the time. Nowadays it is a private university in Austria.

For his first year he never missed a class and he obtained the highest marks possible. 

During his second year, Tesla came into conflict with Professor Poeschl over the Gramme dynamo, and at the end of the second year, Tesla lost his scholarship and took up gambling.

Near the end of the third year, Tesla stopped attending classes and dropped out the following year. 

Great Nikola Tesla never got a university degree!!!!!!!!!

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The enterprising young Edison.

In 1859, when he was 12, Al gets a job as a trainboy, on the morning train from Port Huron to Detroit, selling newspapers and sweets.

During this period young Edison set up a chemistry lab and a printing press on the train.

The company lent him a carriage where he installed a typewriter and a handmade press.

He was able to write and print four hundred copies a week of "The Grand Trunk Herald", for entertaining the train passengers. 

The money earned with the newspapers was invested on his lab, that was settled in the same train carriage.

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TESLA's BAD AND GOOD LUCK...

After graduating, Nikola then returned to his home town of Smiljan, where he contracted cholera. For nine months, he remained in bed, too ill to get up and was close to death several times. 

But every cloud has a silver lining and although his father desired his son to enter the priesthood like him, he promised Nikola that if he returned to health, he would enroll him in the finest engineering school.

That motivation along with reading many books in his father's library, Nikola made a full recovery.

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BIG HEAD MEANS... BIG BRAIN?

Did you know that Edison had such a big head that the doctor of the village thought he suffered a cerebral infection ?

It´s true Edison had a big head, but he wasn´t ill. It was because he had a really big brain... Maybe this is the reason of his amazing intelligence.

Even having a big head, things were not easy to little Al. He was always asking questions and getting into trouble (once he burnt out his neighbour's barn) , and his teacher thought that he was really slow... and he was expelled from school!!! 

No one of his school would have guessed that Al would become a genius and a great inventor.

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MARTIN SEKULIC: A GREAT TEACHER

In 1870 Tesla moves to Karlovac (Carlstadt), Croatia and stays with his aunt. He attends "Higher Real Gymnasium" where teacher Martin Sekulić teaches him Maths and Physics and has a decisive influence on him. 

Sekulić was a memeber of the Academy of Sciences in Zagreb (in the division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) anf he wasis probably the most important teacher during the entire schooling of Nikola Tesla. His experiments of electricity and magnetism filled young Tesla with excitement.

Tesla completed his required four years of high school in only three years, graduating in 1873.