Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer and physicist who made a huge contribution to the age of innovation and technological advancement. His genius and talent enabled him to invent the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. Tesla had worked with Thomas Edison’s company in New York and then left the job after a misunderstanding with his employer Edison. Later, he was hired by Westinghouse, he got a patent license on his AC motor and was given his own lab. With his new lab, Tesla was well equipped to invent electric oscillators, meters, improved lights, and the high-voltage transformer which he named after himself, the Tesla coil.

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