A few days ago, I read an article about Edison and Tesla that contained a few surprises for me. That assumes, of course, that the information is correct.

You might enjoy quickly scanning it. Go to the site that sometimes steals your work: Today I Found Out.

There, look for “Everything You Know About Edison and Tesla Is Mostly Wrong.”

You can also find the article by putting its title in a search engine. I used DuckDuckGo.

You mentioned the statue of him at Niagara Falls.

I saw that statue in 1978, and, before that, I had not heard of Tesla. It started a long investigation of his genius and of Edison’s basic vile nature.

Nikola Tesla was born in “Austro-Hungary empire in 1856 ” NOT Croatia”, Croatia did not exist in 1856 when Tesla was born. So it’s impossible for him to be a Croat.

The Independent state of Croatia was a WWII puppet state of Nazi Germany established on a part of axis occupied Yugoslavia. Croatia was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers.

Nikola Tesla’s father Milutin Tesla he was Serbian Orthodox priest he was born in Raduc, county Medak, Lika, on February 19 1819. The Serbs came to Raduc from around Knin in the 1690s, having arrived there from western Serbia, via Hercegovina.

Tesla’s mother Djuka Mandic (Tesla) was born in Tomingaj daughter of Nikola Mandic (1800 -1863), a Serbian Orthodox priest in Gracac, and the grandfather of Toma Budisavljevic (1777 – 1840), another Serbian priest, who was also a military commander. Djuka was the oldest of eight children.

Nikola Tesla’s baptism certificate reports that he was born on June 28 (Julian calendar; July 10 in the Gregorian calendar) 1856, and christened by the Serbian orthodox priest, Toma Oklobdzija. Tesla was baptised in the old Slavonic church rite, Tesla was not very religious person.

This is what Tesla said when he visited Belgrade.

In Belgrade in 1892 Nikola Tesla said “I am happy to be a Serb and I will always be proud of it.” We, all Serbs are proud of you, proud of what you have done for a better world. Thank you. We’ll never forget you.

Hours which I spent among them in Belgrade that are truly the most beautiful.
Hours of my life is great and my glory was in London and in Paris, but what are all these feelings for what I feel, which I then felt it my best shows to me with those people other associated links and other links are Serbian blood of my. Serbian song Tamo Daleko ( Far Away) was performed as Tesla’s last wish at his memorial.

Croats, twice destroyed Nikola Tesla’s birth house and the Orthodox church in 1941 and then again during the civil war in former Yugoslavia in 1991 in which he was baptized.

Replica of his home and the church was made in 2006 “Croatian reasons for this renewal are economic nature but above all the intention to steal the Serbian genius Tesla and show him to the world as Croat.

Most people don’t know that the Croats during the second world war brutally murdered more than 500 Serbian residents of Smiljan among whom were relatives of Nikola Tesla. Those Serbs and Tesla relatives, who remained Those Serbs who remained were expelled in 1995 year in the action called “storm”

Tesla’s mother DJUKA MANDIC WAS 100% SERB all her family comes from Serbian side. Do not believe Croatian-Nazi propaganda.

You can find that his ancestor died 1389 in Battle on Kosovo against Ottoman Empire ,his surname was ORLOVIC.

READ THIS AND YOU CAN FIND MORE ON http://www.serbnatlfed.org/Archives/Tesla/tesla-mother.htm
Nikola Tesla’s mother, Djuka, though always described accurately
enough as an illiterate, but an extraordinarily gifted woman, has
been, at various times, and often enough, referred to, and spoken
of, as a Croat. There was a tendency in the former Yugoslavia to
look for unifying factors which would help bring its different
nationalities closer together; thus, a certain political task fell
on the Tesla mother and son, and Djuka became a Croat, and in some
unscrupulous quarters is still so regarded, the demise of the former
country, and the destruction of Tesla’s birthplace in 1941, and
fires, vandalism, desecration, and blowing up of Tesla’s monuments
again in 1992, notwithstanding.

Georgina-Djuka Tesla was born in Tomingaj (“Tomo’s wood enclosure”-
so named after her great-grandfather), the daughter of Nikola Mandic
(1800 -1863), a Serbian Orthodox priest in Gracac, and the grandfather
of Toma Budisavljevic (1777 – 1840), another priest, who was also a
military commander, a cartwright, and a fine bookbinder. She was the
oldest of eight children. Her mother became blind when Djuka was 16
yars old, and so it fell to her to look after her seven yonger siblings,
until her marriage to Milutin in 1847.

Djuka and Milutin Tesla had five children: Dane (1848 – 63),
Angelina (married name Trbojevic), Milka (married name Glumicic),
Nikola (1856 – 1943), and Marica (married name Kosanovic). All three
girls married Serbian Orthodox priests. Nikola, the fourth child, was
born on June 28, according to the Julian calendar, or July 10, according
to the modern calendar. He was born “at the stroke of midnight” during a
summer storm and lightning. The village midwife, afraid of storms, said,
“He’ll be a child of the storm,” to which the mother replied,
“No, of light.”

Nikola’s Baptism Certificate, in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade,
states that he was born on June 28, and christened the very next day, by
the Serbian priest from nearby Gospic, Toma Oklobdzija; the godfather was
Jovan Drenovac, a Captain in the Krajina army, also of Gospic. This
baptism, within twenty-four hours of birth, with the priest coming
to the house, instead of the child being taken to the church, is
believed to have been due to the seeming poor health of the infant.
According to Tesla’s autobiography My Inventions, he regarded his mother
as a “woman of genius, especially gifted with a sense of intuition”,
and credited her with whatever inventiveness and destiny in life he
posessed.