Serbia Currency 100 Serbian dinar banknote 2006 Nikola Tesla
National Bank of Serbia - Народна банка Србије - Narodna banka Srbije
Obverse: Portrait of the scientist Nikola Tesla, mathematic formulae for unit of magnetic flux density, image of electric discharge, image of a Tesla’s plant.
Reverse: Figure of Nikola Tesla (detail from a photograph kept in his Museum in Belgrade), sketch of Tesla’s electro-magnetic induction engine, “Tesla’s dove”; logo of the National Bank of Serbia / Great Coat of Arms of the Republic of Serbia in the top left corner of the banknote, against blue background.
Governor signature: Radovan Jelašić.
Dimensions: 68 x 143 mm.
Color: Predominantly light and marine blue, with greenish and ochre-yellow tones.
In circulation from: October 20, 2006.
Serbia banknotes - Serbia paper money
2003-2014 Issue
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles. Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, which was his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited.
Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist." His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. He died on 7 January 1943. His work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. Tesla has experienced a resurgence in interest in popular culture since the 1990s.