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Tesla's birth
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, in 1856 in Croatia. He was a Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist. Tesla contributed to the design of the modern system using alternating current (AC) -
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Tesla's lifespan
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Tesla in USA
He arrived in the USA in New York city -
Tesla and Edison
Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering, and in 1884 he immigrated to the United States and worked for Thomas Edison in New York City. Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering and quickly progressed to solving more difficult problems. -
Redesigning Edison's motor
In 1885, he discovered he could redesign the "Edison's inefficient motor and generators"; this caused their separation. -
His own corporation
Tesla formed his corporation "Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing" -
Tesla and Westinghouse
In 1888, George Westinghouse, an American engineer and business man, purchased his patents. -
Alternating current motor
In 1888 he invented the altrnating current motor, and he patented it 1889. -
X-Rays
Around the year 1890 he experimented with X-rays . He took an image of his own hand. -
Tesla coil
A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity -
USA citizenship
In 1891, Tesla became a citizen of the United States. -
His death
He died on the 7th of January, 1943 in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel.
