Back in 1884, Tesla left Europe to work for Edison, who supposedly promised him $50,000 to fix the problems with DC power. Meanwhile, Tesla's alternating current had fewer issues.

Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 158th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass ...

Concurrent with Tesla’s major breakthroughs in AC in the mid-1880s, an Italian inventor named Galileo Ferraris developed a similar system—something we can likely chalk up to simultaneous ...

Nikola Tesla, the inventor who pioneered a new form of electric current, was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in modern-day Croatia. He went on to acquire nearly 300 patents.

The inventor also said he once worked for 84 hours straight without any rest, according to John O'Neil, author of the book "Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla" (Cosimo Inc., 2006).

Nikola Tesla, the creative, patent-obsessed inventor, was born 160 years ago on July 10. He's famous for the Tesla coil and his work with alternating current. (It's a common misconception that ...

Motors, radios, X-rays, neon signs and other technology was advanced by his extraordinary mind. We take a look at the most famous and important inventions that Nikola Tesla contributed to.

Tesla was also a pioneer of renewable energy. Nine out of the 12 patents used to build one of the world’s first hydroelectric stations, erected at Niagara Falls, New York belonged to Tesla.