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Nikola Tesla

DEFINITIONS OF: Nikola Tesla

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n 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)

Synonyms:
Tesla
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electrical engineer
a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
artificer, discoverer, inventor
someone who is the first to think of or make something
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