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Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
imageThe inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure).Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC BY

Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla – with these biographical facts:

  • Spoke eight languages
  • Produced the first motor that ran on AC current
  • Developed...

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