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The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist . Born on July 9/10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary) Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York (USA) Inventions: a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents.