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jmowreader

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14. Tesla didn't invent alternating current

Reply to evlbstrd (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 17, 2018, 05:12 PM

Feb 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current

The first alternator, the machine used to make AC current, was made in 1832. The first practical use of AC current, electrotherapy, was made in 1855. Nikola Tesla was made in 1856.

Tesla's most important inventions were the induction motor, which made AC useful to industry, and the polyphase system, which made it more efficient to generate.

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