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Nikola Tesla was born in the Austrian Empire and studied engineering and physics without receiving a degree. He gained experience working in telephony and at Edison's company. In 1884, he emigrated to the United States and worked briefly for Edison before striking out on his own. Tesla developed many electrical devices through companies he set up, including his alternating current induction motor patents which were licensed by Westinghouse Electric. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued ideas for wireless power transmission through experiments in New York and Colorado but ran out of funding before completing his most ambitious project. After spending most of his money, Tesla lived in hotels in New York City until his death in 1943.

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BIOGRAPHY

Nikola Tesla was born in the Austrian Empire and studied engineering and physics without receiving a degree. He gained experience working in telephony and at Edison's company. In 1884, he emigrated to the United States and worked briefly for Edison before striking out on his own. Tesla developed many electrical devices through companies he set up, including his alternating current induction motor patents which were licensed by Westinghouse Electric. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued ideas for wireless power transmission through experiments in New York and Colorado but ran out of funding before completing his most ambitious project. After spending most of his money, Tesla lived in hotels in New York City until his death in 1943.

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Nikola Tesla

Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without
receiving a degree, gaining practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at
Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States,
where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in
New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his
ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and
mechanical devices. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents,
licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became
the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually mmarketed

Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of
experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray
imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of the first-ever exhibited. Tesla became well
known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his
lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his
ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage,
high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made
pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put
these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental
wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.

After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with
varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York
hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into
relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and
Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a
resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.

Nikola Tesla succeeded in creating the first electrical system that is currently used to supply
electricity to almost every home on Earth.

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