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Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943)
was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer.
He was born an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an
American citizen.
Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline
of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla's
patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current
electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and
the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
After his demonstration of wireless communication in 1893 and after being the
victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as America's greatest
electrical engineer.
Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his
discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. In the United States, Tesla's fame
rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture, but
due to his eccentric personality and, at the time, unbelievable and sometimes
bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was
ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist. Never putting much focus on
his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.
The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known
as the magnetic field ), the tesla, was named in his honour (at the Conférence
Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960).
Aside from his work on electromagnetism and engineering, Tesla is said to have
contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control,
radar and computer science and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics and
theoretical physics.
In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the
inventor of the radio. Many of his achievements have been used, with some
controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and new age
occultism.
Contemporary researchers of Tesla have deemed him "the man who invented the
twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity."
An ethnic Serb born in Croatia, Tesla stated in his book, My Inventions, "I am
proud of my Croatian homeland and my Serb origin". Tesla is honoured in both
Croatia and Serbia, as well as his adopted home, the United States.
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