2. • Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a
Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical
engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist.
• He was an important contributor to the use of
commercial electricity, and is best known for his
contributions to the modern alternating current (AC)
electrical supply system.
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3. • Tesla attended school at the
Higher Real Gymnasium in
Karlovac.
• In 1875, Tesla went on to study
electrical engineering at the
Austrian Polytechnic in Graz.
• In December 1878, Tesla left
Graz and severed all relations
with his family.
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4. • On 6 June 1884, Tesla arrived in New
York City with four cents in his pocket, a
letter of recommendation, a few poems,
and remnants of his belongings.
• His trip across the Atlantic had not been
pleasant; his ticket, money and some of
his luggage had been stolen
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5. • Edison hired Tesla to work
for his Edison Machine
Works.
• Tesla's work for Edison
began with simple electrical
engineering and quickly
progressed to solving some
of the company's most
difficult problems.
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6. • In 1885, Tesla claimed that he could
redesign Edison's inefficient motor and
generators, making an improvement in
both service and economy. According to
Tesla, Edison remarked:
"There's fifty thousand dollars in it for you - if
you can do it".
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7. • After months of work, Tesla finally finished
the task and inquired about payment.
Edison claimed he had been only joking
and replied:
"Tesla, you don't understand
our American humor".
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8. • In 1887, Tesla constructed a brushless
alternating current induction motor, which
he demonstrated to the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers in 1888.
• In April 1887, Tesla began investigating
what would later be called X-rays using his
own single terminal vacuum tubes
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9. • Tesla demonstrated wireless energy
transmission as early as 1891. This so-
called Tesla effect refers to the movement
of energy through space and matter.
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10. • In the late 1880s, Tesla and Thomas Edison
became adversaries in part because of
Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for
electric power distribution over the more
efficient alternating current advocated by
Tesla and Westinghouse.
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