March 12, 2004 Kwantlen College
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser
University
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Alternate currents
nTesla left Edison in 1885.
nHe formed his own laboratory “Tesla Electric Company” in 1887 on Grand street in New York.
nHe built single-phase and several poly-phase systems.
nOn May 16 1888, at an AIEE meeting in New York, Tesla presented a lecture entitled “A New
System of Alternate
Current Motors and Transformers.”
nShortly after, G. Westinghouse employed Tesla as a consultant.