NIKOLA TESLA; Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7
January 1943), was an ethnically
Serbian inventor, electrical
engineer, mechanical engineer and
physicist. He is best known for his
contributions to the design of the
modern alternating current (AC)
electricity supply system. He was
born in the village of Smiljan, in the
part of former Austria-Hungary
that is now Croatia. He later
became an American citizen.
Tesla got his first job in Budapest in
1882, working at a telephone
company. A few years later he
moved to the United States. Even
in his early life, he was inventing
things. His best known invention
was an electric motor that could
run well on AC power. Tesla died
of coronary thrombosis in a hotel
room in Manhattan, New York City
on 7 January 1943.
