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TESLA, NIKOLA (3)
TESLA, NIKOLA (3)
ScnMaster
(1856 - 1943)
American
electrical
engineer
and inventor, born in
Austria
-
Hungary
. He emigrated in 1884 to the US. In 1888 h e designed the first
practical
system of generating and transmitting
alternating current
for electric
power
. He is recognized as one of the outstanding pioneers in the electric-
power
field
.
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Academy
Level
I Glossary - Approved November 1990