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27 unusual facts about Nikola Tesla


American Institute of Electrical Engineers

The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and innovators in the then new field of electrical engineering, among them Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Edward Weston.

Bernadette Pajer

Bernadette Pajer is the author of the Professor Bradshaw Mysteries, whodunits set in her home of Washington State circa 1900, the age of Tesla.

Branislav Andjelić

He volunteered teaching younger children photography at the local community center and received Nikola Tesla Award for his efforts.

Capacitor discharge ignition

The history of the capacitor discharge ignition system can be traced back to the 1890s when it is believed that Nikola Tesla was the first to propose such an ignition system.

Constantine Koukias

An Opera in 2 parts, Sung in English about the life and times of Nikola Tesla.

Copperopolis, California

Author K. Martin Gardner expounds on this literary history, and Twain's friendship with renowned scientist of the time, Nikola Tesla, in his novel Copperopolis.

Dark Void

With the help of Nikola Tesla, Will uses retrofitted Watcher technology to combat the Watchers and eventually find a way to escape the Void.

Dark Void Zero

Until finally, the military sent in experts: A soldier named Rusty, who was actually born in the Void, and Nikola Tesla.

Đetinja

There is also a small hydroelectrical power plant on the Đetinja in Užice, the oldest one in Serbia and Balkan, second oldest in Europe and third oldest in world after Niagara in United States, designed according to Nikola Tesla's principles, built in 1899 and still being in use, but the large hydroelectrical potential of the river is not being used enough.

El Paso Power Company

During the 19th-20th centuries, the company had provided electricity to Nikola Tesla's property in Colorado.

Electrogravitics

There are also claims that electrogravitics was invented by Nikola Tesla.

Expo: Magic of the White City

It also details exhibits by many people, including George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.

Fractional horsepower motor

The earliest commercially successful electric motors date back to the latter part of the 19th century when Nikola Tesla patented his induction motor in 1888.

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster

One of the manuscripts that can be found mentions Nikola Tesla, referring to him as a Russian scientist.

Gnod

According to founding Gnod member Paddy Shine, Tesla Tapes takes its name from Nikola Tesla; band members cite such other non-musical influences as Kurt Vonnegut, David Simon, Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake.

Gymnasium Karlovac

Inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla attended the gymnasium starting in 1870 until he graduated with honours from the four-year course in only three years when he was 17 years old.

The gymnasium's most famous alumnus is inventor, physicist, and electrical and mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla who attended the school from 1870 until 1873.

History of superconductivity

On March 21, 1900, Nikola Tesla was granted a US patent for the means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations by lowering the temperature, which was caused by lowered resistance, a phenomenon previously observed by Olszewski and Wroblewski.

Kolubara

A series of coal based power stations are built in the basin, including Kolubara (130 MW, at Veliki Crljeni), Nikola Tesla B-1 (in 1983) and Nikola Tesla B-2 (both 615 MW, in Obrenovac).

Luigi von Kunits

At Chicago's Columbian Exposition he witnessed Nikola Tesla's alternating current system running everything mechanical, not to mention the illumination of the entire exposition itself.

Otis T. Carr

Otis T. Carr (December 7, 1904 - September 20, 1982) first emerged into the 1950s flying saucer scene in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955 when he founded OTC Enterprises, a company which was supposed to advance and apply technology originally suggested by Nikola Tesla.

Rotating magnetic field

The discovery of the rotating magnetic field is generally attributed to two inventors, the Italian physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris, and the Austrian/Serbian inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand is a large-scale opera about Serbian American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943), composed by Tasmanian (Australian) composer Constantine Koukias (1965-), with libretto by Marianne Fisher.

The Great Radio Controversy

It is posed that Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla (whom the band is named after) is the true inventor of radio, while the Italian Guglielmo Marconi took the credit and is widely regarded as having the title.

The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century

The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, forgotten genius of electricity (ISBN 0747275882 : OCLC 40839685) is a book by Robert Lomas detailing the life of Nikola Tesla.

Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle

About the same time Barton Swift was working on this design, Nikola Tesla was working to patent his own model - the bladeless turbine, which may have been the basis for Barton's work.

Violet Baudelaire

A violet ray was a medical device developed in the early 20th century based on the coil technology discovered by Nikola Tesla, who is stated to be Violet's favorite inventor.


Clockwork Girl

The character's name was inspired by inventor Nikola Tesla, and Kevin Hanna’s earlier zine " Clockwork Girls hate Electronic Boys".

ECoupled

Energy transmission without wires was pioneered by researchers such as Nikola Tesla, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, and Guglielmo Marconi.

Electric motor

Practical rotating AC induction motors were independently invented by Galileo Ferraris and Nikola Tesla, a working motor model having been demonstrated by the former in 1885 and by the latter in 1887.

Retenzija

It is bounded by the Boulevards of Mihajlo Pupin (west) and Nikola Tesla (east) and the streets of Prve pruge (north) and Džona Kenedija (south).

The Five Fists of Science

Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain and Bertha von Suttner combine forces to try to bring about world peace through superior firepower.

Three-phase electric power

The three-phase system was independently invented by Galileo Ferraris, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky and Nikola Tesla in the late 1880s.

Wardenclyffe Tower

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission.

Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

The Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 0806519606) is a 1998 biography book by Marc Seifer detailing the life of Nikola Tesla.

Worlds of Ultima

The plotline involves the Avatar travelling through time to the Victorian era and finding himself on a spaceship along with various well-known persons from the late 1800s, including Nellie Bly, Sigmund Freud, and Nikola Tesla; they are on a mission to rescue other important personalities of the time, who have been trapped on Mars due to the sabotage of their ship during a guided tour.