UNESCO inscribes Tesla’s Belgrade archive on the Memory of the World Register
In 2003 UNESCO added Nikola Tesla’s Archive, held in Belgrade, to the Memory of the World Register. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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In 2003 UNESCO added Nikola Tesla’s Archive, held in Belgrade, to the Memory of the World Register. The museum independently records the same listing.
Context
Memory listings can preserve papers and can feed a cult that erases Ferraris, Lamme and Westinghouse. A separate worsening row stores cult flattening.
Nikola Tesla is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Documentary-access path. High confidence on the listing.
A register is not a coil.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Nikola Tesla
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.15 · verified
Complex: UNESCO and the Belgrade museum about him. Stored as dated public memory that can also flatten unnamed Westinghouse engineers if misread as unique genius.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactUNESCO inscribes Tesla’s Belgrade archive on the Memory of the World Register
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 2003 · verified
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Nikola Tesla Museum — heritage protectionNikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade · High credibility · verified
- 2.UNESCO Memory of the World — Nikola Tesla's ArchiveUNESCO · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
UNESCO’s Memory of the World page and the Tesla Museum heritage-protection page independently date the 2003 inscription.
Established: 2003 Memory of the World inscription of the Belgrade Tesla archive. Not established: that UNESCO certified every later wireless-power claim in the popular file.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNikola Tesla
- contributed toFactUNESCO inscribes Tesla’s Belgrade archive on the Memory of the World Register
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
Cite this page
Factrail. (2026). UNESCO inscribes Tesla’s Belgrade archive on the Memory of the World Register. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/unesco-tesla-archive-2003
https://factrail.ai/facts/unesco-tesla-archive-2003
Accessed 15 October 2026.
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