Inventors & Engineers · Industrial
Nikola Tesla
The Serbian-American inventor of the AC induction motor and polyphase system: the war of the currents, Niagara Falls, radio and Wardenclyffe, his eccentric decline, and separating fact from myth.
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Prereqs: Electricity & magnetism. Next: Henry Ford; Edison. Sources: W. Bernard Carlson, *Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age* (2013); Jill Jonnes, *Empires of Light* (2003).Next: 1. Timeline