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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] engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. [ 5]
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.
A violet ray wand, a handheld Tesla coil sold as a quack home medical device until about 1940. Said to cure everything from carbuncles to lumbago. The three circuits used in electrotherapy apparatus in the early 20th century: (1) Tesla coil, (2) D'Arsonval coil, (3) Oudin coil.
Pages in category "Inventions by Nikola Tesla" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.
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.
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 ...
Tesla's autobiography was first published as a six-part 1919 series in the Electrical Experimenter magazine, in the February – June, and October issues. The series was republished as Moji Pronalasci – My Inventions, Školska Knjiga, Zagreb, 1977, on the occasion of Tesla's 120th anniversary, with side-by-side English and Serbo-Croatian translations by Tomo Bosanac and Vanja Aljinović ...
Nikola Tesla didn’t live forever. The inventor died under-appreciated, alone, and in poverty on January 7, 1943, from a coronary thrombosis, according to Biography. Nikola Tesla stands in his ...