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Noun: Nikola Tesla
  1. 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)
    - Tesla

Type of: artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, inventor

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