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Ferraris gained a Bachelor in engineering and became an assistant of technical physics near the Regal Italian Industrial Museum. Ferraris' independently researched the Rotary Magnetic Field in 1885 . (This was three years after Nikola Tesla 's identification of the concept). Ferraris experimented with types of asynchronous electric motors. The research resulated in the development of an Alternating-current Motor . In 1888, Ferraris published his research in a paper to the ''Royal Academy of Sciences'' in Turin (which the same year that Tesla gained ).

In 1889 , Ferraris worked at the Italian Industrial institution, a school of electrical engineering (the first school of this kind in Italy; subsequently incorporated in the Politecnico Di Torino ). In the 1896, Ferraris joined the Italian Electrotechnical Association and became the first national President of the organization.


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