The Prague 6 City Hall announced a competition for a monument to Nikola Tesla

Prague - The Prague 6 City Hall has announced a competition for a monument to Nikola Tesla. The winning design will be chosen by an eleven-member jury, consisting of representatives of the city district, experts, and ambassadors from Serbia and Croatia, from where Tesla originated. Martin Šalek, the spokesperson, announced this today via ČTK. Contestants can submit their designs until the end of October.
    The winning piece should decorate the park on the street named after Tesla, within a year of its selection. The authors of proposals that place second and third will receive a monetary reward. "The prize for the winner will be the realization of their work," Šalek stated. The city hall will invest 1.25 million crowns into the new monument.
    Interested parties can pick up the competition materials in printed and digital form at the city hall. They will pay 400 crowns for them.
    On the occasion of last year's 150th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth, a significant electrical engineer of Serbian origin born in Croatia, Croatian President Stjepan Mesić laid the cornerstone of the monument in Prague 6.
    Nikola Tesla lived from 1856 to 1943. He studied the properties of two-phase and multi-phase currents. He constructed and patented numerous electrical machines and devices, for example, in 1887 the alternating current motor and four years later the so-called Tesla transformer, a source of high alternating voltage at high frequency. He also engaged in wireless telegraphy. The unit of magnetic induction is named after him.
    From 1936 to 1937, Tesla stayed in what was then Czechoslovakia. President Edvard Beneš awarded him the Order of the White Lion 1st class. He also received an honorary doctorate of sciences from the Czech Technical University.