Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology. It is less widely known that the Tesla car was named for Nikola Tesla, was once renowned as the prototype of a genius inventor. While Tesla's star began to fade long ago, Elon Musk, who named his car and his company after him, has contributed to a Nikola Tesla revival.