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The archive · 37 photographs

The archive

Period photographs, patent drawings and the places as they are today. Every one is public domain or freely licensed, and each carries its author and source.

Lika and the student years

1856-1883

New York and alternating current

1884-1898

Colorado, Wardenclyffe and the last years

1899-1943

His memory, the places today

1943-2025

Credits and licences

Each photograph is reproduced under its licence. Public domain images need no credit, but we give it anyway. Creative Commons images carry the credit their authors ask for.

  1. The Smiljan parish house, 1890 (1890)The Nikola Tesla Museum, BelgradeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  2. Milutin Tesla, his father (c. 1870)The Nikola Tesla Museum, BelgradeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  3. Tesla at 23 (1879)Unknown authorPublic domainSource
  4. Tesla's passport, 1883 (1883)Croatian-Slavonian-Dalmatian land governmentPublic domainSource
  5. Newly arrived in America (c. 1885)Napoleon Sarony (uploaded by the Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade)CC BY-SA 4.0Source
  6. US Patent 381,968: Electro-Magnetic Motor (1888)Nikola Tesla / US Patent OfficePublic domainSource
  7. Patent drawing: the rotating magnetic field (c. 1888)Nikola Tesla (US patent)Public domainSource
  8. Tesla at 34 (c. 1890)Napoleon SaronyPublic domainSource
  9. Portrait from the Sarony studio (c. 1893)Napoleon SaronyPublic domainSource
  10. The polyphase generator at Chicago, 1893 (1893)Unknown authorPublic domainSource
  11. Tesla's tube lights at Chicago (1893 (publicada en 1919))Nikola Tesla (Electrical Experimenter)Public domainSource
  12. Mark Twain in Tesla's laboratory (1894)Century Magazine (article by T. C. Martin)Public domainSource
  13. A Tesla coil at South Fifth Avenue (1895)Thomas Commerford Martin (Century Magazine)Public domainSource
  14. The Niagara generators (1904)Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.Public domainSource
  15. In the Houston Street laboratory (1896)The Nikola Tesla Museum, BelgradeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  16. The remote-controlled boat (1898)The Nikola Tesla Museum, BelgradeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  17. Tesla holding a wireless lamp (c. 1898)Napoleon SaronyPublic domainSource
  18. The Colorado Springs laboratory (1899)Dickenson V. AlleyPublic domainSource
  19. Primary circuit of the magnifying transmitter (1899)Dickenson V. AlleyPublic domainSource
  20. Colorado Springs: the double exposure (1899)Dickenson V. Alley (Wellcome Collection M0014782)Public domainSource
  21. Wardenclyffe under construction (c. 1902)Unknown authorPublic domainSource
  22. Wardenclyffe tower, 1904 (1904)Unknown authorPublic domainSource
  23. The bladeless turbine (1909)Nikola TeslaPublic domainSource
  24. Time cover, 1931 (1931)Photo: Keystone; cover: TIMEPublic domainSource
  25. The Hotel New Yorker (2008)Daniel SchwenCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  26. The urn in Belgrade (2010)VasenkaCC BY 2.0Source
  27. The Samoborček locomotive (2010)Ex13CC BY-SA 3.0Source
  28. Karlovac Gymnasium (2012)BearcroCC BY-SA 3.0Source
  29. Tesla's induction motor (2012 (foto))CtacCC BY-SA 3.0Source
  30. Fan with a Tesla induction motor (2014 (foto))DaderotCC0Source
  31. Meštrović's Tesla in Zagreb (2015)SilverijeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  32. The Niagara monument (Ontario) (2015)Milan SuvajacCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  33. The museum, exterior view (2015)Marko Jukić (Majkl)CC BY-SA 4.0Source
  34. Nikola Tesla Memorial Centre, Smiljan (2016)old_sCC0Source
  35. The birth house today (2018)Julian NyčaCC BY-SA 3.0Source
  36. The Tesla statue in Gospić (2022)SilverijeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
  37. The Nikola Tesla Technical Museum (2025)RunolistCC BY-SA 4.0Source

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