Inventor with a namesake coil Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
2. a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

INVENTOR (noun)
1. someone who is the first to think of or make something
NAMESAKE (noun)
1. a person with the same name as another

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