Comprehension check

Read the text and fill in the QUICK FACTS chart
Full name
Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy)
Place of birth
Father’s occupation
Mother’s occupation
Nationality
Early education
Later education 1
Later education 2
Occupation
Citizenship
Date of death (dd/mm/yyyy)
Place of death
    
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Write no more than THREE WORDS and/or a number for each question.
a)What sciences attracted Tesla?
b)Who did Tesla work for in the USA?
c)What did Tesla start working on in Edison’s lab in New Jersey?
d)What device did Nikola Tesla conceive and design first?
e)What consequences did his disagreement with Edison over direct current versus alternating current result in?
f)Where did Tesla experiment with high voltage, high frequency electricity?
g)What invention did Tesla consider his most important one?
h)What Tesla’s discovery is a key principle in the work of electric applications?
i)Which device invented by Tesla is still widely used in electronic equipment?
j)When did Tesla construct an instrument to receive radio waves?
k)How did Tesla develop his ideas?
l)Was Nikola Tesla awarded a Nobel Prize?
m)Which of his discoveries turned into a modern multibillion dollar industry?
    
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What do these figures refer to?
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1884
200
1943
6
1856
1915
25
59
1899
 
  1. it was rumored that Tesla and Edison were to share the Nobel Prize for physics
  2. patents he registered worldwide
  3. Tesla came to the United States
  4. number of lamps he lighted without wires
  5. built an experimental station in Colorado Springs, Colorado
  6. Tesla was born
  7. years he lived and worked in New York
  8. the United States Supreme Court recognized Tesla's contribution as the inventor of radio technology
  9. distance he lighted without wires
  10. Tesla’s body height (feet)
    
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Look at the list of inventions and developments. Tick those that Nikola Tesla didn’t make. Look back in the text if necessary.
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