— A New System of Alternate Current — Motors and Transformers Read before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 16, 1888.

Among Tesla’s notable achievements are patents for the alternating-current dynamo, transformer, and motor, said Encyclopedia Britannica. Those patents were sold to George Westinghouse in May 1888.

Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor was an electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist-- known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC ...

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Little you may know that the company was actually named after Nikola Tesla ... and he hoped that Edison would help fund and develop a Tesla invention, specifically an alternating-current (AC) motor ...

Nikola Tesla, the inventor who pioneered a new form of electric current, was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in modern-day Croatia. He went on to acquire nearly 300 patents.

Nikola Tesla, noted electrical inventor, found dead in bed. That Tesla's 1943 death was deemed less newsworthy than a kiddie rodeo was a harbinger of things to come: To this day, the Serbian inventor ...

One car company that gets a lot of people talking is Tesla, as the brand is an American trailblazer in electric vehicles and green energy. Originally dubbed Tesla Motors upon its 2003 founding by ...

The author also gives a historical account of the invention of the induction motor and of the development of its theory. He attributes the invention to Nikola Tesla in 1888.

Originally, Tesla used AC induction motors in its vehicles, which did not need rare earth elements. In fact, this is where the company got its namesake – Nikola Tesla was the inventor of the AC ...

This article was originally published with the title “Tesla Motors Operated from Single-Phase Two-Wire Alternating Circuits” in SA Supplements Vol. 37 No. 944supp (February 1894), p. 15088 doi ...