Original Tesla Coil - Public domain portrait drawing
Summary
Original Tesla magnifier from US patent #1119732. View in elevation: Free terminal and circuit of large surface with supporting structure and generating apparatus
Alterations to image: the original black-and-white line drawing from the patent has been colored.
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.
Date
1856
Source
U.S. Patent 1,119,732
Copyright info
public domain
