Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ; 10 July 1856 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles.

Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs, and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in an ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited.

1. What is Nikola Tesla's heritage?
2. When was he born?
3. And died?
4. Was he a chemical engineer?
5. What is he best known for?
6. Did he work before going to the US?
7. When did he emigrate to the US?
8. Where in the US did he go?
9. Why?
10. Did he stay with Edison his entire career?
11. What did he patent?
12. Who licensed that?
13. How many cities did he do high-frequency power experiments in?
14. What were they?
15. Was he a wireless pioneer?
16. What was his wireless project called?
17. Was it successful?
18. How far would the transmissions gone?
19. What else did he experiment with?
20. Was he the first to make a wireless boat?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Serbian American
2. 10 July 1856
3. 7 January 1943
4. No
5. for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
6. Yes
7. 1884
8. New York City.
9. to work for Thomas Edison
10. No
11. AC induction motor and transformer
12. George Westinghouse,
13. Two
14. New York and Colorado Springs
15. Yes
16. Wardenclyffe Tower project
17. No
18. unknown
19. mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes,
20. Yes