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Summary
Working patent model of alternating current induction motor invented by Nikola Tesla in 1887-1888.
Caption: Shows the first Alternating Current Induction Motor, perfected by Dr. Tesla prior to the year 1884, which year he came to America to take up his life work
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse.
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nikola tesla
electricity
inventions
electrical experimenter 1917
inventions by nikola tesla
tesla ac motors
Date
01/02/1917
in collections
Source
Samuel Cohen, "Dr. Nikola Tesla and his Achievements", Electrical Experimenter magazine, The Electrical Experimenter Co., New York, Vol. 4, No. 10, February 1917, p. 712, fig. 1
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