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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor known for discovering the rotating magnetic field and developing the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1884, where he sold patent rights for alternating-current technology to George Westinghouse and invented the Tesla coil. Tesla's early education and work experiences laid the foundation for his groundbreaking contributions to electrical engineering and technology.

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor known for discovering the rotating magnetic field and developing the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1884, where he sold patent rights for alternating-current technology to George Westinghouse and invented the Tesla coil. Tesla's early education and work experiences laid the foundation for his groundbreaking contributions to electrical engineering and technology.

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Nikola Tesla (born July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia]—died

January 7, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Serbian American inventor and
engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most
alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric
power transmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent
rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to
George Westinghouse. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely
used in radio technology.

Tesla was from a family of Serbian origin. His father was an Orthodox priest; his
mother was unschooled but highly intelligent. As he matured, he displayed
remarkable imagination and creativity as well as a poetic touch.

Training for an engineering career, he attended the Technical University at Graz,


Austria, and the University of Prague. At Graz he first saw the Gramme dynamo,
which operated as a generator and, when reversed, became an electric motor, and he
conceived a way to use alternating current to advantage. Later, at Budapest, he
visualized the principle of the rotating magnetic field and developed plans for an
induction motor that would become his first step toward the successful utilization
of alternating current. In 1882 Tesla went to work in Paris for the Continental
Edison Company, and, while on assignment to Strassburg in 1883, he constructed,
after work hours, his first induction motor. Tesla sailed for America in 1884,
arriving in New York with four cents in his pocket, a few of his own poems, and
calculations for a flying machine. He first found employment with Thomas Edison,
but the two inventors were far apart in background and methods, and their
separation was inevitable.

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