Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ?????; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. read more
Many of Tesla's writings are freely available online, including the article "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy," published in The Century Magazine in 1900, and the article "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency," published in his book Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla. read more
In July of 1856, Nikola Tesla was born, in Yugoslavia. When he was still a student in Graz, he became interested in building a motor without a commutator. He made the original induction motors in Strasbourg in 1883, and he worked in the Edison Laboratory in the United States. read more