ctual invention of the alternating current motor was made by Nikola Tesla, a Serb who had migrated to the United States. One measure of Teslas genius is that he was granted more than 900 patents in the electrical field. Before Teslas time, direct current motors had been produced in small quantities, but it was his development of the versatile and rugged alternating current motor that opened a new age of automation and industrial productivity.
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