Contemporary of Edison
The crossword clue "Contemporary of Edison" is answered by TESLA, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TESLA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TESLA answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TESLA
Every other clue in this collection answered by TESLA, most used first.
- Inventor Nikola - used 195 times, most recently in 2026
- Electric car company - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Electrical pioneer Nikola - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Physicist Nikola - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Edison rival - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Electric car brand - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Edison contemporary - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Magnetic induction unit - used 19 times, most recently in 2015
- Unit of magnetic flux density - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Big name in electric cars - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Cybertruck maker - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Electric car maker - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Electrical inventor - used 12 times, most recently in 2003
- Electrical inventor Nikola - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Electrical pioneer - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
- Elon Musk's car company - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Electrical engineer Nikola - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Induction motor inventor - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
- One weber per square meter - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
- 10 kilogauss - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Model X maker - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Rival of Edison - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Roadster maker - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Alternating current proponent - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ coil - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Current wizard - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Electricity pioneer - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Electricity pioneer Nikola - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Engineer Nikola - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of coil - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Unit of flux - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Unit of magnetic induction - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
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- Arp contemporary - ERNST, used 13 times
- Debussy contemporary - SATIE, used 13 times
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