Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla
Никола Тесла
Portrait by Napoleon Sarony, 1890s
Born	(1856-07-10)10 July 1856 Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)
Died	7 January 1943(1943-01-07) (aged 86) New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Nikola Tesla Museum Belgrade, Serbia
Citizenship	Austrian (1856–1891) American (1891–1943)
Education	Graz University of Technology (dropped out)
Engineering career
Discipline	Electrical engineering Mechanical engineering
Projects	Alternating current high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments
Significant design	AC motor Carbon button lamp Death ray Induction motor Plasma globe Plasma lamp Polyphase system Radio control Resonant inductive coupling Rotating magnetic field Teleforce Telegeodynamics Teleoperation Tesla coil Tesla Experimental Station Tesla's oscillator Tesla turbine Tesla valve Torpedo [1] Vacuum variable capacitor Violet ray VTOL Wardenclyffe Tower Wireless power transfer World Wireless System
Awards	Order of St. Sava, II Class, Government of Serbia (1892) Elliott Cresson Medal (1894) Order of Prince Danilo I (1895) Edison Medal (1916) Order of St. Sava, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1926) Order of the Yugoslav Crown (1931) John Scott Medal (1934) Order of the White Eagle, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1936) Order of the White Lion, I Class, Government of Czechoslovakia (1937) University of Paris Medal (1937) The Medal of the University St Clement of Ochrida, Sofia, Bulgaria (1939)
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Nikola Tesla (11 July 1856 – 9 January 1943), was an ethnically Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.^[2] He was born in the village of Smiljan, in the part of former Austria-Hungary that is now Croatia. He later became an American citizen.

Tesla got his first job in Budapest in 1882, working at a telephone company. A few years later he moved to the United States. Even in his early life, he was inventing things. His best known invention was an electric motor that could run well on AC power. Tesla died of coronary thrombosis in a hotel room in Manhattan, New York City on 7 January 1943. Elon Musk was inspired by him for his very famous project: Tesla.

1. ↑ Jonnes 2004, p. 355. sfn error: no target: CITEREFJonnes2004 (help)
2. ↑ Laplante, Phillip A. (1999). Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering 1999. Springer. p. 635. ISBN 978-3-540-64835-2.