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Great Inventor: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, andfuturist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct currentWar of Currents” as well as various patent battles.

Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission, which was his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited.

Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal “mad scientist“.

Above is Nikola Tesla’s AC dynamo-electric machine (AC Electric generator) in an 1888 U.S. Patent 390,721.

His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. He died on 7 January 1943.

Above is a gilded urn with Tesla’s ashes, in his favorite geometrical object, a sphere, Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade.

His work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. Tesla has experienced a resurgence in interest in popular culture since the 1990s.

 

Sprite Lightning Seen From Space Station Show Bursts Of Electricity

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/sprite-lightning-space-station-video_n_1789574.html

I recall seeing Nasa’s imagery videos years ago as they were orbiting the earth. I’m a bit baffled as to why now this type of information considered new information? As I was watching this,  I remembered thinking “Wow this could be harnessed as free energy!” Then after I  thought of Nikola Tesla’s invention of harnessing the earth’s energy. -Sola

Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

http://www.mozaweb.com/Extra-Videos-Nikola_Tesla-209578

These are Photographs of him experimenting in the laboratory.

 

 

Nikola Tesla biography:

 http://www.biography.com/people/nikola-tesla-9504443

Third grade students at war with the Smithsonian Institution concerning Nikola Tesla’s role in Electrical Science.

These are a few inventions/patents for public view: The AC Motor, the Radio, The Tesla Coil, The Vacuum Tube, Hydro Electric Generators and the a strong strong hand in the X-Ray. But there’s so much more, just for starters let’s take a look at his U.S. patents (112). You can purchase the CD-ROM here.

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