English noun: Nikola Tesla | |||
1. | Nikola Tesla (person) 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) | ||
Synonyms | Tesla | ||
Instance hypernym | artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, inventor | ||