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.
"D'Arsonval apparatus", invented by French physicist and doctor Jacque Arsene D'Arsonval around 1890 used in an obsolete Victorian-era medical field called electrotherapy. It was a high frequency resonant "os Еще
Nikola Tesla's "Egg of Columbus", a device used by the inventor to demonstrate the rotating magnetic field that drove his new alternating current induction motor by using that magnetic field to spin a copper egg on end.
Diagram of single-wire high frequency lighting system, fig. 1 from Nikola Tesla's US patent no. 454622 System of electric lighting granted June 23, 1891. This is important because it contains the first appear Еще
Drawing from US patent no. 645576 filed September 2 1897 by inventor Nikola Tesla covering his proposed system for transmitting electric power through the air without wires. Tesla believed that at 30,000 feet Еще