People Database

Profiles for the human network around the work.

Profiles connect biography, dates, fields, organizations, projects, patents, documents, associated people, timelines, sources, and related discussions.

Nikola Tesla: biography, inventions and timeline

Historical Figures

People connected to Tesla's work.

1856-1943

Nikola Tesla

Inventor, electrical engineer

AC power, high-frequency systems, wireless concepts, motors, turbines.

Patents, lectures, Colorado Springs, Wardenclyffe
1846-1914

George Westinghouse

Engineer, industrialist

AC power adoption, Niagara Falls, power infrastructure, manufacturing.

AC systems, Niagara Falls, Tesla collaborators
1865-1923

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Electrical engineer, mathematician

AC analysis, transients, hysteresis, power-system engineering.

Electrical engineering, AC theory, historical context
1857-1924

Katharine Johnson

Editor, correspondent

Tesla correspondence, public communication, historical record context.

Letters, people network, source provenance