Tesla

Tesla, NIKOLA, born the son of a Greek priest at Smiljau in Servia, in 1857, studied at Graz and Paris, and in 1885 joined Edison at Menlo Park, but left him in order to work out in New York his own inventions—telegraphy through the earth without wires, the securing of an effective electric light by means of Vacuum Tubes (q.v.), the controlling of a torpedo boat from the shore by electricity, &c. In 1894 a book on The Inventions of Tesla was published at New York.