Saturday, 18 January 2014

Nikola Tesla


Bio:-
  • Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
  • Emigrated to U.S.A to work for Thomas Edison 
  • His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla as a consultant to help develop a power system using alternating current.
  • Tesla is also known for his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs which included patented devices and theoretical work used in the invention of radio communication, for his X-ray experiments, and for his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.
  • Claimed to conceive the "Teleforce" which was basically a death ray.
  • Tesla gained a reputation in popular culture as the archetypal "mad scientist".
  • The SI unit of measure for magnetic field strength is named 'tesla' in honor of him.
  • Created the Tesla Coil, Induction Motor, Radio Remote Control Vehicle and the Rotating Magnetic Field.

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

Death:-
  • 7 January 1943 (aged 86)
  • New York City, New York, USA




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