One of the largest contributions to modern electronics came from a man named Nikola Tesla. Briefly...

One of the largest contributions to modern electronics came from a man named Nikola Tesla. Briefly research Nikola Tesla's origins and his scientific discoveries and present your results in point form.

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Nikola Tesla:

One of his most important discovery is modern alternating current.

He was born on 10 july 1856,in Smiljan,Austrian Empire.

He recived his advanced education in engineering and physics, in a polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and University of Prague.

Tesla after his education moved to Budapest, where he worked with Central Telephone Exchange, where he got the idea of Induction motor.

In 1884 he moved to United states,where Edison hired him after working together for several months they parted away.

In 1885, he got funding for his own company"Tesla Electric light company" and successfully developed improved arc lightinig.(later he was thrown out of his company)

After two years he got funding for his new company,In 1900 he started his boldest project of building a global wireless communication system, which will share information and provide free electricity.

In 1901 massive lab and transmission tower was build on long island newyork:Wardenclyffe.

because of the rivals and pressure of the investors tesla has to lay off his project on 1906,In 1915 the site was fallen into foreclosure.

poor and reclusive tesla died on january 7 1943 in new york.

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