Nikola Tesla (185k)

The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist

Born on July 9/10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary)
Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York (USA)

Inventions: a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light.

B.A. Behrend, AIEE annual meeting, New York City, May 18, 1917.

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Chicago World's Fair, 1893

Niagara Falls

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