Tesla,Nikola

Tesla,Nikola
Tes·la (tĕsʹlə), Nikola. 1856-1943.
Serbian-born American electrical engineer and physicist who discovered the principles of alternating current (1881) and invented numerous devices and procedures that were seminal to the development of radio and the harnessing of electricity.

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