Nikola Tesla may be the most influential and prolific inventor you've never heard of. Over the course of his lifetime, Tesla was a prolific inventor. He obtained nearly 300 patents worldwide for his designs and ideas. Some of Tesla's other inventions and innovations include the following: a high-voltage transformer now known as the Tesla coil, electric oscillators, generators, meters, induction motors, RADAR technology, improved lights, X-rays, radio communications, remote control technology that used radio signals, and rotating magnetic fields, which became the basis of most AC machinery.
Nikola Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan, Croatia. During his birth, lightning struck during summer storm.
He moved to Budapest in Hungary, to work for a telegraph company. Upon arriving, he noticed that the Budapest Telephone Exchange company was not in operation, so he worked at draftsman in another company. ` He was given the position of chief electrical engineer.
In 1882, he found another job in Paris with a company referred to as the Continental Edison Company. He began working in a new industry by installing indoor lighting resources.
After 1890, Tesla researched various approaches to transmitting power by inductive and capacitive coupling. This was through the use of AC voltages that were produced by his famous `Tesla coil.`
In mid 1891, at the age of 35, he became a naturalized citizen of the US. In the same year, he also patented his famous Tesla Coil.
In early 1943, at age 86, Tesla died in a Hotel Room in New York. He died alone, and his body was found by a maid who ignored a do not disturb sign on Tesla’s room.