Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Nikoli Tesla

He was a Serbian-American inventor,  electrical engineer,  mechanical engineer and physicist.  Being born on July 10, 1856 to a priest he worked with Thomas Edison a short while.

Tesla then got his own laboratories. He developed a range of electrical devices. George Westinghouse helped him patent his inventions and hired him as a consultant. He is also known for his high voltage, high frequency power experiments.

He died penniless. However in 2005 he was listed amongst the hundred top on the Discovery Channel.  In 1960s the General Conference of Weight and Measures honered him in the use of "tesla," as a term of measures.

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