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Tesla polyphase AC 500hp generator at 1893 exposition

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Tesla's Polyphase Alternating Current 500 horse power generator, in Westinghouse exhibit in the Electricity building of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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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