Tesla
['teslə;'tezlə]
Definition
(noun.) United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943).
(noun.) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
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Examples
- Tesla in the United States, Branly and Ducretet in France, Righi in Italy, the Russian savant, Popoff, and Professor Lodge, of England, have all made contributions to this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The description of the inventions made by such electrical magicians as Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla would fill volumes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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