!!!Tesla, Nikola

b. Smiljan (Croatia), July 10, 1856, 
d. New York (USA), Jan. 8, 1943, inventor. 1884, after his studies at 
the Joanneum college in Graz, joined T. Edison in New York; 1887 set 
up the Tesla Electric Company and invented the three-phase system, 
which, exploited by Westinghouse 1888, became outstandingly important. 
The unit of magnetic flux density (induction), Tesla, is named after 
him.

!Literature
S. Boksan, N. T. und sein Werk, 1932; J. 
O´Neill, N. T., 1951.



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