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NIKOLA TESLA

BIOGRAPHY.

 He was an American physicist of Serbian origin.


He studied at the universities of Graz (Austria)
and Prague. After having worked in several
electrical industries in Paris and Budapest, he
moved to the United States (1884), where he
worked under the orders of Thomas A. Edison,
then a supporter of direct electric current.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
 Tesla founded an electrotechnical research
laboratory in New York, where he discovered
the principle of the rotating magnetic field and
polyphase systems of alternating current.
 He created the first
electric motor of induction
of alternating current and
many other electrical
devices such as the so-
called Tesla assembly, a
radiofrequency
transformer in which
primary and secondary
are tuned, useful when
pre-selecting the input of
a radio receiver.
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