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Section size for Nikola Tesla (42 sections)
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Early years	9,602	10,402
Working at Budapest Telephone Exchange	800	800
Working at Edison	1,226	6,819
Moving to the United States	5,593	5,593
Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing	2,392	2,392
AC and the induction motor	6,936	10,795
Market turmoil	3,859	3,859
New York laboratories	1,811	24,540
Tesla coil	2,348	2,348
Citizenship	1,055	1,055
Wireless lighting	3,177	3,177
Polyphase system and the Columbian Exposition	5,857	5,857
Steam-powered oscillating generator	1,009	1,009
Consulting on Niagara	1,078	1,078
The Nikola Tesla Company	682	682
Lab fire	1,100	1,100
X-ray experimentation	4,735	4,735
Radio remote control	1,688	1,688
Wireless power	3,516	14,531
Colorado Springs	6,329	6,329
Wardenclyffe	4,686	4,686
Later years	822	26,186
Bladeless turbine	1,041	1,041
Wireless lawsuits	3,519	3,519
Nobel Prize rumors	1,973	1,973
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Living circumstances	3,396	3,396
Birthday press conferences	7,360	7,360
Death	3,282	3,282
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Views and beliefs	98	7,781
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On society	3,207	3,207
On religion	1,028	1,028
Literary works	2,585	2,585
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See also	183	183
Notes	71	71
References	6,048	6,048
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Semi-protected edit request on 27 January 2025

Dane Tesla actually died when Nikola Tesla was 5 14.200.32.74 (talk) 00:01, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please, provide WP:reliable sources for your edit. Vanjagenije (talk) 10:01, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

naturalized citizen or alien?

How can the Office of Alien Property Custodian "assume control and dispose of enemy-owned property in the United States and its possessions" and seize Tesla's belongings? Despite becoming a US citizen in 1891, was he still regarded as Austrian, and thus since 1938 as German? After all, it was 1943. 2003:C6:374E:3A05:5033:EE65:3DF1:1BC6 (talk) 20:58, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if the National Defense Research Committee existed only until 1941, how could it act in 1943? 2003:C6:374E:3A05:5033:EE65:3DF1:1BC6 (talk) 21:04, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The US was at war with Germany and Japan when Tesla died. During wartime, government offices can get away with things less likely to happen during peacetime. Tesla was of obvious foreign birth, had no descendents and probably no heirs to argue against the order, so they were probably taken to (hopefully) aid the war effort with no contest.

From the National Defense Research Committee article, "Its working arm was superseded by the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941, but it remained as an influential advisory and consulting agency until it was terminated in 1947." Stepho talk 23:07, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Contradicting information

How can "Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree", while later "He finished a four-year term in three years, graduating in 1873" is stated? 2001:1C06:1B06:1A00:3071:CADF:36B6:FADF (talk) 23:27, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]