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Inventor

Nikola Tesla

Patents indexed

2

Year range

1888 – 1891

Associated with

Years active

1888 – 1891

Total patents

2

Most recent

1891

Domains

energyconsumer_electronicsmechanicalautomotive

Activity by decade

1880s
1
1890s
1

Patents

2

Career timeline

2 patents, 1888–1891

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US 454622·1891·Individual

Nikola Tesla's Early System for Electric Lighting

A 19th-century patent by Nikola Tesla describing an early method for distributing and regulating electric light using high-frequency alternating current.

US 382280·1888·Individual

How Nikola Tesla Invented the Modern AC Electric Motor

Nikola Tesla's 1888 patent for an induction motor that uses rotating magnetic fields to convert electricity into mechanical motion without needing physical brushes.

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