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Tesla's Achievements and Recognitions (Part 3)

Nikola Tesla Stamp 1983

Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in his birth house in Smiljan, Lika, Croatia

Croatian Government proclaimed the year 2006, "Nikola Tesla Year"

Tesla said: " I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland."

Recently, the Croatian government declared year 2006, in which we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth, to be Nikola Tesla year. They also started with the reconstruction of Tesla's village, the church, his house and the brook he used to play in as a child, where he came upon his first scientific ideas. In the initial phase of the project they will invest $5 million to transform the village of Smiljan into a shrine of Nikola Tesla, with a museum and a theme park.

The opening of Tesla's reconstructed village of Smiljan, Lika, Croatia on July 10, 2006 was celebrated in the presence thousands of Tesla's admirers from many countries around the globe and the presence of the Croatian government.  Croatian President Stipe Mesic and Serbian President Boris Tadic were present at the celebration.

We thank the internet portal Grada Gospic and Mr. Juraj Kovacevic for photos of the ceremony at Nikola Tesla Memorial Center on July 10, 2006.  We also thank Petar Stojanovic, founder of Tesla Society of Switzerland.

For all the photos of the event please visit www.gospic.hr/grafika/AlbumNT/index2.html

Above: Western Union Telegram, from Nikola Tesla, to Croatian Leader Dr. Vlatko Macek on May 25, 1936.  The Telegraph reads:

To Dr. Vlatko Macek, Zagreb Croatia
Thank you very much on your congratulation and kindness.
I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland. 
Long live all Yugoslavians.
-Nikola Tesla

Above: Tesla's birth house (left) and the Serbian Orthodox Church (right) where his father Milutin Tesla was a priest.

Above: Tesla's birth house (left) and the Serbian Orthodox Church (right) where his father Milutin Tesla was a priest.

Above: Another view of Tesla's birth house (left) and the  Serbian Orthodox Church (right) where his father Milutin Tesla was a priest.

Above: The brook close to Tesla's house where Tesla use to play as a child, where he came upon his first scientific ideas.

Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade, Serbia

Memory of the World, United Nations (Unesco)

2 September 2003 Some 600 works of the 10th century physician and scientist Ibn Sina and the archives of Nikola Tesla, a pioneer in electrification, are among the 23 documentary collections from 20 countries selected for inscription on the Memory of the World Register of library and archive material. The International Advisory Committee of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme selected the collections during a meeting in Gdansk (Poland) that ended last Saturday.

Nikola Tesla's Archive in Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro) constitutes a unique collection of 160,000 pages of patent documentation, scientific correspondence, scientific papers, manuscripts, technical drawings, scientific measuring data, personal documents and legal papers, as well as 1,000 original photographs of Tesla's experiments and inventions, all of which are indispensable to the study of the history of electrification.

A total of 91 properties from 45 countries are inscribed on the Memory of the World Register, which was established in 1997 to preserve and promote documentary heritage of universal value.

Memory of the World by the United Nations click here

Tesla Busts at American Universities

Click here for Nikola Tesla Busts in Major Universities at the following Universities:

1. Harvard (Physics Dept.)

2. Yale (EE Dept.)

3. Princeton (EE Dept.)

4. MIT (EE Dept.)

5. Cal Tech (Physics Dept.)

6. U. Michigan (EE Dept.)

7. U. Wisconsin (Physics Dept.)

8. U. Maryland (Physics Dept.)

9. U. Illinois (EE. Dept.)

10. Purdue U. (EE. Dept.)

11. U. Pennsylvania (Physics Dept.)

12. Georgia Tech (EE Dept.)

13. Cornell U. (Physics Dept.)

14. Michigan State U. (Physics Dept.)

15. Johns Hopkins U. (Physics Dept.)

16. Penn State U. (Physics Dept.)

17. Duke U. (EE Dept.)

18. Carnegie Mellon U. (EE Robotics Dept.)

Tesla's Diplomas can be found :

(Page 1) Diplomas of Nikola Tesla from the Archives of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade

(Page 2) Diplomas of Nikola Tesla from the Archives of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade

New Governor's Proclamation of
"Nikola Tesla Day" on July 10th

For full list of Proclamations please go to : http://www.teslasociety.com/records2.htm