It's not all Roman mosaics and Byzantine frescoes and Ottoman fortresses -- we also learned about the genius of Nikola Tesla - and more about his inventions - at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
(Last year my daughter had a year-long project about Inventions and Inventors in her gifted program - and she can't wait to tell her teachers about what she learned about Tesla.)
For more about the Tesla Museum, see:
http://www.nikolateslamuseum.org/web/index.php?l=en
Also - the Tesla Society in New York has excellent information about the Museum in English:
http://www.teslasociety.com/teslamuseum.htm
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| my daughter with her "light saber" - getting ready for the demonstration |
Check out my video of the demonstration on this link
And here's another
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| getting ready for the demonstration - my daughter has her "light saber" |
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| people who saw Tesla demonstrate this remote control boat at a fair thought he must be controlling it with his mind - or with a trained monkey driving it inside - apparently more credible than the technology that he invented |
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| our tour guide was outstanding -- a mechanical engineering major at the university in Belgrade |
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| Look who's on the 100 denar note |
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| along with a depiction of the invention we saw on display at the museum |
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