Let it be known that I, Nikola Tesla from Smiljan in Lika, a border province of Austria-Hungary, invented... This was the sentence with which the genius inventor introduced himself when applying for the first patents to the USA. This was between 1885 and 1888, before he received American citizenship. He reported 112 patents in the USA and almost as many in other countries. Many inventions remained recorded only in professional journals or his diaries.
For all of us mortal people, the most important discovery is probably alternating current, which enabled the transformation of voltage to higher levels, so that electrical energy could be transmitted over vast distances with minimal losses. And for us wine lovers, it is also interesting that the ingenious inventor in the USA was willing to wait for months for his uncle Pajo Mandić from Varaždin to send him wines.
Send me more wine from Varaždin. Don't send Dalmatian wines, I've experimented with them and they don't work, iz written in a letter that the famous inventor from the USA sent to his uncle. Mandić sent him ostrich, in Croatia also known as tudum, a wine that is said to make your toenails rot. They joke in Varaždin that this variety, created by crossing American grape varieties with noble Europians, encouraged Tesla's genius. His last stay in Croatia was in Varaždin in 1892. He died on January 7. 1943. in New York on the 33rd floor at the age of 86.