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Front: Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), leader of Yugoslavia

Tito was born Josip Broz in northwestern Croatia which was then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. He started working as a machinist's apprentice in 1907. Later he worked for Benz automobile factory in Germany and at Daimler in Austria.

Broz was conscripted and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1913. He was sent to the Eastern Front in Galicia in 1915 to fight against Russia and was captured. He eventually enlisted in the Red Army, and in 1918 he applied for membership in the Russian Communist Party.

In 1934 he adopted the name Tito. The Comintern sent him back to Yugoslavia in 1936 to purge the Communist Party there. He became secretary general of the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1937.

During WWII, he organized partisan resistance movement against Nazi/Fascist occupation. After the war, Tito became the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia. In 1953 he became the President of Yugoslavia.

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Front: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian-American inventor and researcher

Tesla was born in Croatia of Serbian origin. He attended the Technical University at Graz, Austria, and the University of Prague, majoring in engineering. It was in Graz he discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery.

He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse the following year. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology.

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