1. Nikola Tesla Museum - Introduction
The Museum of Nikola Tesla in Belgrade keeps complete personal belongings of Nikola Tesla, which were, according to his last will and thanks to the exceptional efforts of his nephew Sava Kosanoviæ, collected and transfered to Belgrade after his deathin New York in 1943. The wealth of arhive material, consisting of more than 150.000 various document referring to the life and creative work of Nikola Tesla, as well as the significance of his inventions which are presented at the exhibition, make this Museum a unique institution both in Yugoslavija and in the world. The urn with Tesla's ashes is also kept in the Museum. Among numerous words of recognition that the visitors from all over the world exspressed both to Tesla and the Museum, the words of the great physicits Niels Bohr are particulary worth of noting:

2. Nikola Tesla: inventor, engineer, scientist
The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist Born on July 9/10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary) Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York (USA) Inventions: a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents.

3. Nikola Tesla
NIKOLA TESLA IS THE TRUE UNSUNG PROPHET OF THE ELECTRIC AGE. Without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, logic processors, alternating current power generation and transmission, radio and television would all have been impossible. Yet his life and times have vanished largely from public access. This AUTOBIOGRAPHY is released to remedy this situation, and to fill this "BLACK HOLE" in our information age. He forever changed the world we live in.

4. Nikola Tesla
THE FAIRY TALE OF ELECTRICITY by Nikola Tesla Whoever wishes to get a true appreciation of the greatness of our age should study the history of electrical development. There he will find a story more wonderful than any tale from Arabian Nights. It begins long before the Christian era when Thales, Theophrastus and Pliny tell of the magic properties of electron - the precious substance we call amber - that came from the pure tears of the Hellades, sisters of Phaeton, the unfortunate youth who attempted to run the blazing chariot of Phoebus and nearly burned up the earth. It was but natural for the vivid imagination of the Greeks to ascribe the mysterious manifestations to a hyper-physical cause, to endow the amber with life and with a soul. Whether this was actual belief or merely poetic interpretation is still a question. Even at this very day many of the most enlightened people think that the pearl is alive, that it grows more lustrous and beautiful in the warm contact of the human body. So too, it is the opinion of men of science that a crystal is a living being and this view is being extended to embrace the entire physical universe since Prof. Jagadis Chunder Bose has demonstrated, in a series of remarkable experiments, that inanimate matter responds to the stimuli in exactly the same manner as plant fiber and animal tissue.

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