The Tesla room
Alternating current explained on working equipment.
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Both countries claim him and both are partly right: he was born in 1856 in the village of Smiljan in the Lika region, within present-day Croatia, to an Orthodox Serb family, his father a priest. He lived and worked most of his life in the United States and held its citizenship. So his ethnic origin was Serb, his birthplace Croatian and his achievement American โ and the museum here presents him as a son of the region rather than a national possession.
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Zagreb's technical museum carries Nikola Tesla's name for good reason: he was born in the village of Smiljan in what is now Croatia, and is among the names the country is proudest of. But the museum is wider than one man โ it is a general science and technology museum in a large industrial hall. Its best-known room is the Tesla demonstration: live shows run by guides with equipment that actually works, above all a Tesla coil throwing long, audible electrical arcs, with an explanation of the alternating current principle by which his system won the argument against Edison's direct current. The museum also holds a planetarium, a full reconstructed mine in the basement that you descend into and walk through, an aviation section with real aircraft, steam locomotives, a submarine, and departments on energy, agriculture and firefighting. This is among the best things to do in Zagreb with children, but the live shows run at fixed times โ check them before arriving.
Alternating current explained on working equipment.
Real aircraft, steam locomotives and a submarine.
Savska cesta 18, 10000 Zagreb