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Nikola TeslaEarlierTesla's New York Lab Burns1895 CE
LaterCompletion of Mount Rushmore1941

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree.

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