Nikola Tesla

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Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943) Great Serbian-Croatian inventor (later nationalized American), pioneered concept of Alternating Current, the system of electricity used throughout the world.

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Blue Portrait of Nikola Tesla, the only painting Tesla posed for.
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

[edit] In sculpture

Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
The Belgrade Airport
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

[edit] Family

Tesla's father Milutin Tesla - orthodox priest

[edit] Technics

The first 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.
An early “Tesla” high frequency oscillator.
A massive mercury interrupter devised by Tesla.
The first “Beat” Receptor for radio-telegraphy invented by Tesla.
AC generator for exciting the Tesla “Beat” Receptor.
The Tesla Steam Turbine.
A “Tesla” conical high frequency, high potential oscillator coil.
“Tesla” conical HF oscillator coil (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.

[edit] Miscellaneous

“Nikola Tesla street” in Zagreb, Croatia.
Passport of Nikola Tesla from 1883, page 1
Tesla attending a tour of a new Marconi transmitter station in New Jersey, U.S. along with a large group of other scientists, including Albert Einstein, directly to Tesla's right (near centre).