Nikola Tesla • Никола Тесла
Nikola Tesla (a biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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Nikola Tesla @ Project Rastko • Никола Тесла @ Пројекат Растко
Nikola Tesla
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Krajina, Military Frontier (part of present Croatia), he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1893 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as America's greatest electrical engineer. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture, but due to his eccentric personality and unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist. Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.
The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field B\,), the tesla, was named in his honour (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960).
Aside from his work on electromagnetism and engineering, Tesla is said to have contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio. Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early new age occultism. Contemporary biographers of Tesla have deemed him "the man who invented the twentieth century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity."
Nikola Tesla @ Project Rastko • Никола Тесла @ Пројекат Растко
Mechanical Therapy - Nikola Tesla
'Death Ray' for Planes - Nikola Tesla
Tesla, 80, Reveals New Power Device - Nikola Tesla
Expanding Sun Will Explode Someday Tesla Predicts - Nikola Tesla
Breaking up Tornadoes - Nikola Tesla
Tremendous New Power Soon to be Unleashed - Nikola Tesla
Statement of Tesla Relating to Force and Matter - Nikola Tesla
Tesla Answers Mr. Manierre and Further Explains the Axial Rotation of the Moon - Nikola Tesla
The Effect of Statics on Wireless Transmission - Nikola Tesla
A Lighting Machine on Novel Principles - Nikola Tesla
Electric Drive for Battle Ships - Nikola Tesla
How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies - Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla Plans to Keep "Wireless Thumb" on Ships at Sea - Nikola Tesla
Possibilities of "Wireless" - Nikola Tesla
The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires - Nikola Tesla
The Problem of Increasing Human Energy - Nikola Tesla
Tesla Describes His Efforts in Various Fields of Work - Nikola Tesla
Tesla on Animal Training by Electricity - Nikola Tesla
The Age of Electricity - Nikola Tesla
Mr. Tesla on Thermo Electricity - Nikola Tesla
Roentgen Rays or Streams - Nikola Tesla
From Nikola Tesla - He Writes About His Experiments in Electrical Healing - Nikola Tesla
The Physiological and Other Effects of High Frequency Currents - Nikola Tesla
The "Drehstrom" Patent - Nikola Tesla
Experiments With Alternating Currents of High Frequency - Nikola Tesla
Phenomena of Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency - Nikola Tesla
Tesla's New Alternating Motors - Nikola Tesla
Canadian Patent 135,174 Improvements in Fluid Propulsion (Tesla Pump) - Nikola Tesla
Canadian Patent 29,537 Improvements in Methods of and Apparatus for the Electrical Transmission of Power - Nikola Tesla
Canadian Patent 24,033 Improvements in Dynamo Electric Machines - Nikola Tesla
British Patent 14,550 Improvements relating to the Insulation of Electric Conductors - Nikola Tesla
British Patent 2,801 Improvements in Reciprocating Engines and Means for Regulating the Period of the same - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 1,655,113 Method Of Aerial Transportation - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 1,365,547 Flow Meter - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 685,956 Apparatus For Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 685,954 Method Of Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 685,953 Method Of Intensifying And Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 655,838 Method Of Insulating Electric Conductors - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 613,735 Electric Circuit Controller - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 609,251 Electric Circuit Controller - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 609,250 Electrical Igniter For Gas Engines - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 609,248 Electric Circuit Controller - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 609,245 Electrical Circuit Controller - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 568,179 Method Of And Apparatus For Producing Currents Of High Frequency - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 555,190 Alternating Motor - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 524,426 Electromagnetic Motor - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 514,972 Electric Railway System - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 514,169 Reciprocating Engine - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 464,666 Electro-Magnetic Motor - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 459,772 Electro-Magnetic Motor - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 428,057 Pyromagneto-Electric Generator - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 413,353 Method Of Obtaining Direct From Alternating Currents - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 335,787 Electric-Arc Lamp - Nikola Tesla
US Patent 335,786 Electric-Arc Lamp - Nikola Tesla