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Tesla   /tˈɛslə/  /tˈɛzlə/   Listen
Tesla

noun
1.
A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
2.
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943).  Synonym: Nikola Tesla.



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"Tesla" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked through the glasses at the skeleton-like tower Bennie had an extraordinary feeling of having seen it all before somewhere. As in a long-forgotten dream he remembered Tesla's tower near Smithtown, on Long Island. And this was Tesla's tower, naught else! It is a strange thing, how at great crises of our lives come feelings of anticipatory knowledge. There is, indeed, ...
— The Man Who Rocked the Earth • Arthur Train


Words linked to "Tesla" :   artificer, discoverer, gauss, flux density unit, electrical engineer, inventor


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