Nikola Tesla - Tesla returned to Smiljan

Time: 1873

Place: Smiljan, Austrian Empire (Present day Smiljan, Croatia)

Details: In 1873, Tesla returned to Smiljan. Shortly after he arrived, he contracted cholera, was bedridden for nine months and was near death multiple times. Tesla's father, in a moment of despair, (who had originally wanted him to enter the priesthood) promised to send him to the best engineering school if he recovered from the illness.

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