Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla's US Patents The Complete Collection

Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist.

Born on July 10th, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary)
Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York (USA)

Nikola Tesla was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He is considered the inventor of commercial electricity and radio. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor. He also patented wireless communication that we know of today as radio. His resonance theories in practice made radio posible.

Inventions: 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 many others.

The Nikola Tesla patents on this site represent a complete collection of Nikola Tesla's patents. U.S. Patent Office records were searched for Utility, Design, Reissued, and Trademark patent types. Tesla recorded with the U.S. Patent Office, 111 utility patents, 1 reissued patent, 2 utility patent corrections and 1 utility patent disclaimer. The FBI File on Nikola Tesla were released through the Freedom of Information Act.