Nikola Tesla

   Nikola Tesla    inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer,futurist

Born : 10 July 1856 Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia)

Died : 7 January 1943 (aged 86) New York City, United States

Citizenship :

• Austrian (1856–1891)
• American (1891–1943)

Education : Graz University of Technology (abandoned)

Engineering career

Discipline : 

• Electrical engineering,
• Mechanical engineering

Projects :

• Alternating current,
• high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments

Significant design : 

• Tesla Tower/World Wireless System/Wireless power transfer
• Tesla Experimental Station
• Tesla's Egg of Columbus
• Tesla coil/Resonant inductive coupling
• Tesla turbine
• Tesla valve
• Tesla's oscillator
• Polyphase system
• AC motor/Induction motor
• Rotating magnetic field
• Radio control
• Plasma globe
• Plasma lamp
• Carbon button lamp
• Teleforce/Death ray
• Telegeodynamics
• Teleoperation
• Torpedo
• Vacuum variable capacitor
• Violet ray
• VTOL

Awards :

1. Order of St. Sava, II Class, Government of Serbia (1892)
2. Elliott Cresson Medal (1894)
3. Order of Prince Danilo I (1895)
4. Edison Medal (1916)
5. Order of St. Sava, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1926)
6. Order of the Yugoslav Crown (1931)
7. John Scott Medal (1934)
8. Order of the White Eagle, I Class, Government of Yugoslavia (1936)
9. Order of the White Lion, I Class, Government of Czechoslovakia (1937)
10. University of Paris Medal (1937)
11. The Medal of the University St Clement of Ochrida, Sofia, Bulgaria (1939)

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Though he was famous and respected, he was never able to translate his copious inventions into long-term financial success—unlike his early employer and chief rival, Thomas Edison.

Tesla studied math and physics at the Technical University of Graz and philosophy at the University of Prague. In 1882, while on a walk, he came up with the idea for a brushless AC motor, making the first sketches of its rotating electromagnets in the sand of the path. Later that year he moved to Paris and got a job repairing direct current (DC) power plants with the Continental Edison Company. Two years later he immigrated to the United States.

Did you know? 

During the 1890s Mark Twain struck up a friendship with inventor Nilola Tesla. Twain often visited him in his lab, where in 1894 Tesla photographed the great American writer in one of the first pictures ever lit by phosphorescent light.

Quotes :

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. 

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. 

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.  

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate,man is no more. 

 I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. 

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame,then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.