Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-born American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. Tesla was one of the great pioneers of the use of alternating current electricity. Alternating current electricity changes in strength in cycles over time and is the type of electricity that power companies supply to homes today. Tesla invented the alternating current induction generator, a device that changes mechanical energy into alternating current electricity, and the Tesla coil, a transformer that changes the frequency …showed first 75 words of 1347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1347 total…and early 20th centuries and continues to inspire engineers today. Bibliogrophy: "Nikola Tesla and His Business," Scientific American Supplement, May 21, 1892, p. 13659-60 "Inventor Claims Wireless Power." ... New York Herald, March 9, 1924 "NIKOLA TESLA COLORADO SPRINGS NOTES", 1899-1900, Nikola Tesla Museum, Beograd, 1978. "Lightning in His Hand: The Life Story of Nikola Tesla (1964)" Inez Hunt and Wanetta W. Draper Martin, T.C., The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla, The Electrical Engineer, 1894. (Second edition, Barnes and Noble, 1992.)