Apostle of Electrification

 

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Serbian Unity Congress

Letter to President of Serbia regarding

International Nikola Tesla Day and the Year of Electrification

June 15, 2006

Boris Tadic, President
Republic of Serbia

Dear President Tadic,

The Serbian Unity Congress is joining the other organizations around the World that are proposing to the United Nations to declare the year 2006 as «The Year of Electrification» in honor of the 150th anniversary of Tesla's birth and proclame July 10 as «International Nikola Tesla Day». Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljane, Lika. His father Milutin was a Serbian Orthodox priest, and mother Djuka a self-taught inventor of many household items. Tesla came to the USA in 1884 and became one of the greatest inventors in the World. Tesla was a visionary genius whose inventions established the basis for the widespread electrification and wireless communications across the Globe. In writings about Tesla, one often finds statements such as that he "invented the twentieth century" or "the twenty first century", or even that he "invented the future".

Tesla created the polyphase alternating current based system of motors and generators that remains at the heart of electric power generation to this day. Among the more than 700 of Tesla's other inventions/patents are the rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, Tesla Coil, induction motor, wireless communication, fluorescent lights, use of high-frequency (h.f.) currents in medicine and remote control.

However, he is still not recognized for many of his fundamental inventions. Such is the case of radio for which even the U.S. Supreme Court in 1943 determined Tesla as inventor. Tesla is one of only two Americans to have a unit of electrical measurement named in his honor. In 1956, Tesla's peers at the Electrotechnical Conference in Munich acknowledged his monumental contributions to science by designating his name to represent a unit of magnetic measurement: the "tesla" (T) became the Unit of Magnetic Flux Density in the MKS system. Throughout the entire history of electrical science only fifteen men worldwide have received this honor. The IEEE, which considers Tesla one of the 12 "apostles" of electrical science, continues to offer an annual prize in the field of power engineering in his name.

We ask the Government of Serbia and Montenegro to submits an official requests to the UN to declare the year 2006 as «The Year of Electrification» and to proclame July 10 as «International Nikola Tesla Day».

Sincerely yours,
Prof. Dr. Jasmina Vujic
Executive Vice President