Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, electrical engineer, and inventor, was born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire, in 1856, and created alternating current and the Tesla Coil.
Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla, who was born and raised in the Austrian Empire, studied engineering and physics without receiving a degree in the 1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry.
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