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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer and inventor whose revolutionary alternating-current (AC) system powers the modern world, yet he died penniless after being outmaneuvered by Thomas Edison.
PeopleMichael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a self-taught 19th-century scientist who revolutionized our understanding of electricity and magnetism, transforming civilization by making electric power practical for everyday use.
PeopleThomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was the prototypical American inventor-entrepreneur whose 1,093 patents and systematic research methods electrified the modern world, gave us recorded sound and cinema, and re-defined how innovation itself is organized.
PeopleBenjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin—printer, scientist, diplomat, and philosopher—became the most celebrated American of the eighteenth century by turning curiosity into civic power and helping to forge a new republic.