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1856 – 1943Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)Died 7 January 1943, aged 86Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and engineer whose alternating current induction motor and polyphase system underpin modern power distribution. He also pioneered radio, wireless power transmission and high-voltage devices. He died alone and in debt in a room at the Hotel New Yorker.