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

[O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American[3][4] engineer,


futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the
modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.[5]

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 immigrated 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.[6] 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.[7]

Early years

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