Friday, 1 August 2014

NIKOLA TESLA INVENTOR OF A.C. ELECTRICITY AND POWER GRID

                                                                   NIKOLA TESLA

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.

He can be considered the father of AC electricity and is responsible for the modern power grid. Contrary to popular belief it was not Thomas Edison.


                                                   THOMAS EDISON


  For two years Nikola Tesla worked for Edison starting in 1882 at the Continental Edison Company in France for one year, and the second year at the Edison Machine Works in New York. It ended due to disagreement over salary. It was Nikola Tesla who was responsible for the innovations Edison patented.

In 1887 Tesla developed an induction motor that ran on alternating current, a power system format. In 1888 Tesla had a viable AC motor and related power system which he patented.


                                 TESLA'S ALTERNATING A.C. MOTOR
                                   



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