The advent of magnetic resonance scanners has drawn the term “Tesla” into the neurological vocabulary, by denoting as it does the strength of the magnet used . Tesla was born in Luka, Croatia, on the Adriatic coast and studied mathematics and physics at the University of Graz and philosophy at Prague. In 1884 he immigrated to the United States where he worked for Thomas Edison, until a bitter quarrel developed between them. Tesla invented the first alternating (AC) motor in …