WRITTEN BY
Inez Whitaker Hunt
Lecturer and freelance writer. Teacher of creative writing, University of Colorado extension, Colorado Springs, 1963–66. Coauthor of Lightning in His Hand: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla.
Nikola Tesla, (born July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia]—died January 7, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.), Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-currentmachinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric powertransmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patentrights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coilwidely used in radio technology.
Hunt, I. Whitaker (2021, January 3). Nikola Tesla. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikola-Tesla