Nikola Tesla Dies; Inventor of Many Electrical Devices

New York, Jan. 8 (AP). — Nikola Tesla, 86, electrical inventor noted for his development of systems of alternating current power transmission and distribution of electrical energy, was found dead in bed in his suite at the New Yorker Hotel last night. He had been in poor health for two years.

He was born in Smiljan, Lika, Austria-Hungary, and began his career in Budapest in 1881, when he invented a telephone repeater. Since 1884 he had lived in this country.

Among the inventions credited to Tesla was a system of arc lighting, the Tesla motor, a system of alternating current power transmission, a system of electrical conversion and distribution of oscillatory discharges, the Tesla coil or transformer, and generators of high frequency currents. He conducted researches and discoveries in radiations, material streams and emanations.