Which of these scientists discovered the existence of alternating current?

Correct answer: Nikola Tesla

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Player Sherry
Player Sherry
you should have gotten more credit for all he did for mankind. at least he didn't electrocute any elephants!
Player #19719147
Player #19719147
Tesla was way ahead of his time. There are things people think are "new" now, wireless charging for example, that Tesla came up with over 100 years ago.
Leo
Leo
you must mean croatian-american
Byrde Alpha Bitch
Byrde Alpha Bitch
Absolute genius! If Tesla would have had the financial backing, good political &/or powerful "friends". The world as we now know it would be very different, to say the very least!
Player #27795852
Player #27795852
Leo, there are no ortodox croatians as far as i know
Mel
Mel
TESLA WASNT GREEDY AND MO EY GRUBBING. HE WANTED TO GIVE HIS INVENTIONS TO THE U.S. FREE. ESISON AND WESTINGHOUSE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HIS GIFT. HE DIED BROKE.
Jallop
Jallop
None of them. Faraday came up with the principles (the discovery) and numbers of people developed it long before Westinghouse made use of it requiring Tesla to construct the first AC induction motor.
KDo
KDo
Player #53375323, nope. He is Croatian scientist, his father was serbian, but his mother was Croatian and he was born and raised in Croatia. Through his whole lifetime, he only spent 2 hours in Serbia, or less.
Alex
Alex
Leo, no, just Serbian 100%. His father was orthodox priest in Serbian Orthodox church. Mother also Serbian. Born i Austro-Hungarian empire. Croats killed 54 members of his family in 1942, just because they were Serbs.
Blitzen
Blitzen
Tesla was a brilliant engineer and inventor (e.g., radio remote control, Tesla coil, Tesla valve, etc.). Regardless, he did NOT 'discover' alternating current. Point of fact, he acknowledged an Italian professor's earlier AC motor design when writing about HIS design for an alternating current motor. The perhaps equally brilliant Polish-Russian engineer Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky installed three-phase alternating current generation and transmission between a German waterfall and Frankfurt 175 km away in 1891 - well before Tesla and Westinghouse engineers designed the Niagara hydroelectric power plant's two-phase AC transmission to Buffalo, NY during the 1901 Pan-American Exposition or their 1893 AC demonstration at the Colombian Expo in Chicago.
Player #53375323
Player #53375323
Leo, it clearly says Serbian, two different countries, yes easy to get them confused especially in the Balkan region Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia and Bulgaria are very close and similar, but he was definitely Serbian. Скапан!
Player #3722956
Player #3722956
CyanTRex298, Serbia.