Early Life Nikola Tesla's early life is not very well documented. From what is known, Nikola Tesla was born in the town of Smiljan, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now located in
Croatia, but Tesla's family is of Serbian origin. His father, Milutin Tesla was a priest in an Serbian Orthodox church, while his mother, Đuka, who although never learned how to read, had a knack of inventing household farming tools. He was one of their 5 children.
Tesla went on to study electrical engi...