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OCR: NIKOLA TESLA (1856 1943) HE CROATIAN-BORN American inventor Nikola Tesla patented an electricity generating and distribution system that tran smitted alternating current AC He developed and applied many other important ideas in the fields of electricity and radio The Tesla coil, at induction coil he invented is used in radio technology and operates at very high frequencies. Tesla worked briefly for the American inventor Thomas Edison (1847 1931 but they fell out because they disagreed about the best form of electric current use for large -scale supply the end, Tesla s alternating current system was favored over Edison's direct current (DC) system. ALSO STORY NKOLA uction peen