What Happened: “Nikola Tesla was great…,”Musk wrote in response to an X user who posted pictures of Tesla’s statue at Niagara Falls In Ontario on his birthday, July 10.

The company was named in honor of Nikola Tesla, inventor of the AC motor that powers the company’s cars. 7 Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), a naturalized American physicist and electrical engineer, was ...

Lots of stories about Tesla credit him for inventing the first alternating current (AC) motor or sometimes even AC power itself. To be sure, the development of AC electricity was world-changing. AC ...

Tesla is one of the most famous car companies in the world - but the name has a very special meaning few people know about ...

Tesla patented his AC motors and power systems, which were said to be the most valuable inventions since the telephone. Soon, Westinghouse, recognizing that Tesla’s designs might be just what he ...

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.

Nikola Tesla invented many things. His best-known invention is the three-phase alternating current electricity system, which operates safely in our homes and offices today.

On the Shoreham property where Nikola Tesla built a 187-foot wireless communication tower more than a century ago, officials broke ground Thursday on a $20 million redevelopment of the property ...