Nikola Tesla Biography

Nikola Tesla biography

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NAME: Nikola Tesla
OCCUPATION: Inventor
BIRTH DATE: c. July 10, 1856
DEATH DATE: January 07, 1943
EDUCATION: Technical University at Graz, University of Prague

PLACE OF BIRTH: Smiljan, Croatia
PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York

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Serbian-American inventor Nikola Telsa discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery.

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Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla was born in July of 1856 in what is now Croatia. He came to the U.S. in 1884 and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his alternating-current machinery, to George Westinghouse. His 1891 invention, the Tesla coil, is used in radio technology. He died on January 7, 1943, in New York City.