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    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist known for his contributions to the design of AC electricity supply systems. He studied engineering without a degree and gained experience working in telephony and at Edison's company. Tesla emigrated to the US in 1884 and worked to develop electrical devices through laboratories and companies, obtaining patents for inventions like the AC induction motor.

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    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist known for his contributions to the design of AC electricity supply systems. He studied engineering without a degree and gained experience working in telephony and at Edison's company. Tesla emigrated to the US in 1884 and worked to develop electrical devices through laboratories and companies, obtaining patents for inventions like the AC induction motor.

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    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist known for his contributions to the design of AC electricity supply systems. He studied engineering without a degree and gained experience working in telephony and at Edison's company. Tesla emigrated to the US in 1884 and worked to develop electrical devices through laboratories and companies, obtaining patents for inventions like the AC induction motor.

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    Nikola Tesla (/ˈtɛslə/; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла,[2] [nǐkola têsla];[a] 10 July [O.S.

    28 June]
    1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[5][6] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical
    engineer, and futurist. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating
    current (AC) electricity supply system.[7]
    Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s
    without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working
    in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated
    to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at
    the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of
    partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York
    to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and
    related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a
    considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that
    company eventually marketed.
    Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of
    experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray
    imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became
    well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons
    at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla
    pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his
    high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he
    made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried
    to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an
    intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he
    could complete it.
    After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with
    varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York
    hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943.[8] Tesla's work fell
    into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights
    and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux
    density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the
    1990s.[9]

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