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English: Caption: A Massive Mercury Interrupter Devised by Tesla for Handling 50 H. P. of Electrical Energy at a Rate of 100,000 Breaks Per Second.
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Source Samuel Cohen, "Dr. Nikola Tesla and his Achievements", Electrical Experimenter magazine, The Electrical Experimenter Co., New York, Vol. 4, No. 10, February 1917, p. 712, fig. 4
Author
Nikola Tesla  (1856–1943)  wikidata:Q9036 s:en:Author:Nikola Tesla q:en:Nikola Tesla
 
Nikola Tesla
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Nicola Tesla; Nikolaj Tesla; Nikole Tesla; Nikolai Tesla; Đuka Mandić; Duka Mandic; Nichola Tesla; Nikoli Tesla; Nicolas Tesla; Tesla; Никола Тесла; 尼科拉·特斯拉
Description American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist
Serbian American inventor
Date of birth/death 10 July 1856 Edit this at Wikidata 7 January 1943 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Smiljan Manhattan
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