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Goes to the Technical University at Graz, Austria, where he saw the Gramme dynamo and started to think about alternating current systems.
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Goes to work in Paris for Continental Edison Company
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Sails to New York, USA, with 4 cents, a few poems, and calculations for a flying machine - is first employed by Thomas Edison but they don’t get along
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George Westinghouse buys the patent rights to Tesla’s AC system, starting the AC-DC power struggle between Tesla and Edison
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Invents the Tesla coil, which is used today in radio and TV systems. This is the same year he became a US citizen
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The AC system is used to light the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago
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The first power machinery at Niagara Falls is installed using AC current