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. THANK YOU