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Birthplace & Hungarian citizenship

Tesla was not Autro-Hungarian citizen, he was born in Smiljan, at the time Kingdom of Hungary.

The division was so marked between the countries that there was no common citizenship: a person was either an Austrian or a Hungarian citizen, and no one was allowed to hold dual citizenships.[1][2][clarification needed] The difference in citizenship also meant that, there were always separate Austrian and Hungarian passports, never a common one.[3][4]

I believe, according to our sources, Smiljan was part the sovereign state known as the Austrian Empire. This quote from the Austrian Empire article is instructive: "The Austrian Empire... was a modern era successor empire centered on what is today's Austria and which officially lasted from 1804 to 1867. It was followed by the Empire of Austria-Hungary,..." - MrX 21:38, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]


But this didn't change the fact that: Tesla hadn't Austrian Passport or Austrian citizenship. He had Hungarian citizenship and Hungarian passport.--84.2.167.189 (talk) 11:14, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply] 

 Tesla was not born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Smiljan was in the Austrian Military Frontier which was governed directly from Vienna(Austria). It ceased to be in 1881, after which it was integrated in the Kingdom of Croatia(which was a part of the Hungarian half of the monarchy).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.208.15 (talk) 20:45, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Wrong, it was military frontier of Kingdom of Hungary. The Habsburgs governed it on the right of the "Lands of the Hungarian Holy Crown" as Kings of Hungary. After the Hungarian revolution was surpassed by Austrian and Russian armies in 1849, the Hungarian Parliament was disbanded & suspended even in Hungary. (The Austrian Parliament have never had right to create laws on the Military frontiers of Kingdom of Hungary, they were governed by Hungarian Royal decrees from Vienna. That's why Tesla has Hungarian birth certificate and citizenship instead of Austrian.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.183.162.4 (talk • contribs) 18:40, 25 April 2013‎

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nikola Tesla in popular culture is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.- MrX 22:04, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tesla in Budapest

You wrote "In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest to work under Ferenc Puskas at a telegraph company,...." Ferenc Puskás is a famous footballer from the 20th century [5]. Tesla worked under Tivadar Puskás [6]. Koffilover (talk) 23:10, 15 March 2013 (UTC) Koffilover (talk) 23:17, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ferenc Puskás was the younger brother of Tivadar Puskás, who dead before the footballer Ferenc Puskás was born. http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusk%C3%A1s_Ferenc_%28ditr%C3%B3i%29 --Jadckers (talk) 17:07, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Plaques and memorials

I see a reference elsewhere to his plaque near the old Printer's Union site in Colorado Springs (Memorial Park/Prospect Lake) but not in here. I'll have to get a photograph sometime for verification/exact location and text. It's located on the north end of the park, roughly halfway between Hancock and Union, along Pikes Peak's south sidewalk. You can see the skate park from there. 75.70.89.124 (talk) 11:17, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is going on with the refs?

Who started putting in refs in a different style?

Why are there two styles still present?

why are they not uniformly keyed?
(look at 180-188, 111-112, and 248 if you are not clear on what I mean)

Sources? What relevance is this? The first source, where the hell is it used in the article? how many times?

This is a real mess. Chaosdruid (talk) 20:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 10 April 2013

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Testa was Croatian, not Sebian.Even if he was born when Serbia ruled the Croatian territory, he has never considered himself as "Serbian".By many people(especially the Croatians), this kind of mistakes are extremely offensive.Please, correct it. Mark.Van.Goth (talk) 10:43, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Where is your reliable source that supports your claim?Dkspartan1 (talk) 12:28, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please see the notice at the top of this page that indicates where discussions as to Tesla's ethnicity and nationality belong. Thank you. —KuyaBriBriTalk 19:02, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Better source

Is there better sources for "He died impoverished and in debt" than the newspapers, and a primary source newspaper (historical document)? IRWolfie- (talk) 09:51, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The sourcing is poor, seems to be the same news story re-quoted 3 times and it all looks like its a copy/paste from wikipedia. Fourth source is 1916 so has nothing to do with his death. Fixed it a bit. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 15:40, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 11 May 2013

there are few mistakes on this page - first it wansnt austrian empire, it was austro-hungarian empire and second you can classified him as serbo-american if he was born in croatia, well back then it was austro-hungaria, maybe he should be called austo-hungarian then 74.72.226.186 (talk) 21:37, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: First of all, Tesla was born in 1856 and Austria-Hungary wasn't created until 1867. Regarding his ethnicity, there has been extensive discussion (see for instance Talk:Nikola Tesla/Nationality and ethnicity) and what you see in the article is as close as we could get to a consensus backed by reliable sources. Favonian (talk) 22:08, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request on 25 May 2013

Under the heading 'Personal Life', under the sub-heading 'Eidetic Memory', is the following sentence, which contains a grammatical error:

Tesla read many works, memorizing complete books, and supposedly possessing a photographic memory.

The previous editor used the gerund form "possessing", when in fact it should be the third person past simple form, "possessed", in order to achieve subject-verb agreement. Therefore I request that someone kindly change "possessing" to "possessed".

Thank you! ~All Deliberate Speed Adspeed (talk) 07:39, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Done with this edit, because I agree that possessed is the correct form. Thanks. Begoon talk 07:54, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Awkward sentence..first line!

"Tesla started working in the telephony and electrical fields"

What fields? Where are they located? Use another word other than "fields" as the word is used in describing magnetism, etc.

  1. ^ Eric Roman (2009 isbn=978-0816-07469-3). Austria-Hungary and the Successor States: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. Infobase Publishing. p. 401. Retrieved 1 January 2013. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing pipe in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica. 2003. ISBN 978-0852-29961-6. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  3. ^ Szávai, Ferenc Tibor. "Könyvszemle (Book review): [Kozári Monika: A dualista rendszer (1867–1918): Modern magyar politikai rendszerek] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup ([[:Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors|help]])". Magyar Tudomány (in Hungarian). p. 1542. Retrieved 20 July 2012. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  4. ^ Szávai, Ferenc (2010). Osztrák-magyar külügyi ingatlanok hovatartozása a Monarchia felbomlása után (PDF) (in Hungarian). p. 598.
  5. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Puskás
  6. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivadar_Puskás
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