Your birth year
2006
AC Induction Motor
1883Electric power
AC Induction Motor is 123 years older than you
It's from 1883, before you were born.
- Inventor
- Nikola Tesla
- Inventor age
- 27
- Field
- Electric power
About
As of 2026, it's 143 years old.
The AC induction motor is one of the inventions behind modern electrification, turning alternating current into mechanical work without the same brush-and-commutator limits as earlier designs.
On OlderThan, the interesting comparison is personal: Tesla was still in his twenties when he was working through ideas that would help power factories, appliances, and transit systems.
AC Induction Motor through the years
1883
1883
Induction motor developed
Tesla demonstrated an early alternating-current motor concept.
1888
1888
Patents and public attention
Tesla patents and lectures brought AC motor ideas into wider industrial view.
You were born — 2006
