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Council of Europe opens exhibition on Nikola Tesla

Strasburg, 3 October 2006

Exhibition “Tesla’s Magnificent World of Electricity”, celebrating the birth of Nikola Tesla 150 years ago, was opened yesterday in the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasburg in the presence of a large number of officials, ambassadors and deputies.

The exhibition that opened on the first day of regular autumn sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was organised by the Permanent Representation of Serbia in Strasburg.

Serbian Minister of Science and Environmental Protection Aleksandar Popovic opened the exhibition.

Serbian Ambassador to the Council of Europe Sladjana Prica said at the opening that Tesla was a man who left his inventions to the world and added that Tesla was proud of his Serbian origin and his country of birth as well as of the country where he got his education.

Paying homage to this “brilliant man of science who had the idea of alternating electrical current”, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis said that “if one single invention was responsible for the second industrial revolution – this was it.”

For a lot of us, Nikola Tesla invented the 20th century, Davis said.

Davis thanked Prica and the Permanent Representation of Serbia for organising the exhibition.

I invite you all to see this exhibition and to remember – every time you switch on the light or a TV, you do that thanks to Tesla, Davis concluded.