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Tesla Oscillator

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Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator, steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893.

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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1896
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Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)

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Cochrane, C. H. (1896). The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott company. Page 185.
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