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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor born on the 10th of July 1856 and died on the 7th of January 1943. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system, including the AC induction motor he patented in 1888.
Nikola Tesla was born on the 10th of July 1856 in Smiljan, a village then in the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire and now in Croatia. He was born into a family of ethnic Serbs, the fourth of five children, and his father Milutin was an Eastern Orthodox priest.
Nikola Tesla emigrated in June 1884 and worked at the Edison Machine Works in New York City for about six months before quitting over a disputed bonus. Historian W. Bernard Carlson notes Tesla may have met Edison only a couple of times, one of which prompted Edison to remark, "this is a damned good man."
In July 1888, Tesla's backers Brown and Peck negotiated a licensing deal with George Westinghouse for his polyphase induction motor and transformer designs worth sixty thousand dollars in cash and stock plus a royalty per AC horsepower. Six years later, Westinghouse purchased the patent for a lump sum of two hundred sixteen thousand dollars.
Wardenclyffe Tower was Tesla's unfinished intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, planned for Shoreham, New York, 100 miles east of New York City. In March 1901 he obtained one hundred fifty thousand dollars from J. P. Morgan for a 51 percent share of any wireless patents, but the project halted in 1905 after he ran out of funding.
In 1960, the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. This came seventeen years after his death, as his work had fallen into relative obscurity following his death in 1943.