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My Inventions (Paperback)
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My Inventions (Paperback)
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Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American
inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and
futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the
modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla's
achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his
seemingly miraculous inventions made him world-famous.Although he
made a considerable amount of money from his patents, he spent a
lot financing his own projects. He lived for most of his life in a
series of New York hotels although the end of his patent income and
eventual bankruptcy led him to live in diminished circumstances.
Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but
since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a resurgence in
popular culture. His work and reputed inventions are also at the
center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to
support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and New Age occultism.
In 1960, in honor of Tesla, the General Conference on Weights and
Measures for the International System of Units dedicated the term
"tesla" to the SI unit measure for magnetic field strength.
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