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Nikola Tesla ( / ˈtɛslə /; [2] Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [ O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American [3] [4] inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply ...
Nikola Tesla was an inventor who obtained around 300 patents [1] worldwide for his inventions. Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. There are a minimum of 278 patents [1] issued to Tesla in 26 countries that have been accounted for.
512 pages. ISBN. 1-56459-711-3. OCLC. 37556993. The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is a book compiled and edited by Thomas Commerford Martin detailing the work of Nikola Tesla through 1893. [1] The book is a comprehensive compilation of Tesla's early work with many illustrations.
Contributions; Talk; Category: Inventions by Nikola Tesla. ... Pages in category "Inventions by Nikola Tesla" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 ...
Inventor Nikola Tesla is quoted as saying "[Edison's] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labour ...
List of Nikola Tesla writings. Tesla wrote a number of books and articles for magazines and journals. [1] Among his books are My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, compiled and edited by David Hatcher Childress; and The Tesla Papers . Many of Tesla's writings are freely available on the web ...
World Wireless System. The Wardenclyffe Power Plant prototype, intended by Nikola Tesla to be a "World Wireless" telecommunications facility. The World Wireless System was a turn of the 20th century proposed telecommunications and electrical power delivery system designed by inventor Nikola Tesla based on his theories of using Earth and its ...
Tesla's oscillator. An oscillator that was among the exhibits Tesla demonstrated at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893. [1] [2] Later in life Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in ...