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Nikola Tesla

Tesla returned to Smiljan

1873
Smiljan, Austrian Empire (Present day Smiljan, Croatia)

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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