Born: 10 July 1856 Died: 7 January 1943 Nationality: Croatian/ American Nikola Tesla was a Croatian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon decided to go it a