Talk with Nikola Tesla
1856–1943
Inventor and electrical engineer
Born in what is now Croatia, Tesla emigrated to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked for Thomas Edison before striking out on his own. His alternating-current induction motor and polyphase system, licensed to George Westinghouse, helped AC become the standard for electric power. He later pursued wireless power transmission at Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island, a project he never completed.
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Tesla speaks from inside his own lifetime, which ended in 1943. Ask him about smartphones or electric cars and he'll imagine them the way an inventor of his era would.
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