Nikola Tesla

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After brief employment by Thomas Edison, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla worked to improve the alternating current (AC) electric supply system. Tesla’s patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by Edison rival George Westinghouse.

Laboratory Model of Tesla Motor, circa 1895

Laboratory Model of Tesla Motor, circa 1889

Westinghouse Induction Motor, 1888-1900

Westinghouse Induction Motor - 1

Portrait of Nikola Tesla, circa 1895

Portrait of Nikola Tesla, 1933

Letter from Nikola Tesla to George Sylvester Viereck, December 17, 1934

Death Mask of Nikola Tesla on Pedestal, 1943

"A Warning from the Edison Electric Light Company," 1887

Westinghouse Type A Polyphase Wattmeter, 1903-1906

AC Generator, Used by the International Harvester Company, circa 1895

Edison Machine Works, Goerck Street, New York, New York, 1881

Keywords	Nikola Tesla engineering electricity Motor portraits Death mask
Themes	Power & Energy

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