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Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, in 1856 in Croatia. He was a Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist. Tesla contributed to the design of the modern system using alternating current (AC)
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He arrived in the USA in New York city
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Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering, and in 1884 he immigrated to the United States and worked for Thomas Edison in New York City. Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering and quickly progressed to solving more difficult problems.
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In 1885, he discovered he could redesign the "Edison's inefficient motor and generators"; this caused their separation.
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Tesla formed his corporation "Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing"
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In 1888, George Westinghouse, an American engineer and business man, purchased his patents.
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In 1888 he invented the altrnating current motor, and he patented it 1889.
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Around the year 1890 he experimented with X-rays . He took an image of his own hand.
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A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity
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In 1891, Tesla became a citizen of the United States.
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He died on the 7th of January, 1943 in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel.
