Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor (1856–1943)
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| Date of birth | 10 July 1856 Smiljan (Austrian Empire, Croatia) Никола Тесла | ||||
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English: Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943) was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was a pioneer in the development and design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Tesla
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Blue Portrait of Nikola Tesla, the only painting for which Tesla posed. -
Nikola Tesla, with Rudjer Boscovich's book "Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis". East Houston St., New York -
Cover sheet Time magazine, Volume 18 Issue 3, July 20, 1931 -
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In sculpture
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Niagara Falls -
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The Belgrade Airport -
Monument in front of University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering -
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. -
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. -
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. -
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. -
Bust at Manhattan, New York City. -
Bust at Manhattan, New York City. -
Geburtshaus, Smiljan, Kroatien -
Niagara Falls, Ontario, CA -
Niagara Falls, Ontario, CA
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Family
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Tesla's father Milutin Tesla - orthodox priest
Inventions
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Tesla's 1887-1888 alternating current induction motor. -
Tesla's 1887-1888 alternating current induction motor. -
Columbia Lecture in New York, May 1891. -
Tesla's Polyphase 500 HP AC generator at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. -
Nikola Tesla's personal exhibit at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. -
Mark Twain in Tesla's Lab. -
Compact Tesla coil oscillator. -
A massive mercury interrupter devised by Tesla. -
A detector for radio-telegraphy invented by Tesla. -
AC generator for exciting the Tesla detector. -
The Tesla Steam Turbine. -
One of his early Tesla coils with a conical secondary. -
Conical Tesla coil oscillator (airbrushed). -
Nikola Tesla's laboratory in Colorado Springs circa 1900. -
In 1888, Tesla gained U.S. Patent 381.968 for a type of the rotating magnetic field -
Turbine, Oct. 21, 1909, U.S. Patent 1,061,206, May 6, 1913. -
Alternator of 10.000 Cycles p.s., Capacity 10 K.W., Which Was Employed by Nikola Tesla in His First Demonstrations of High Frequency Phenomena Before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College, May 20, 1891.
Miscellaneous
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“Nikola Tesla street”, Zagreb, Croatia. -
Tesla Street located in Shoreham, Long Island, NY where Nikola Tesla's lab/museum is located. -
No 2, “Nikola Tesla street”, Poreč, Croatia. -
Passport of Nikola Tesla from 1883, page 1
Tesla honored on Dinar notes
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20 Serbian dinars (2006) -
100 (2000)
Stamps
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Stamp of Georgia, 2006
Speeches
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