Nikola Tesla
10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943
Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems underpins the modern electric grid. He held hundreds of patents and became an icon of visionary invention.
Lived at the same time
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Patented the AC induction motor
May 1888
The patents were later licensed by George Westinghouse, enabling the spread of alternating current power.
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Demonstrated wireless power experiments at Colorado Springs
1899
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