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Nikola Tesla (/ ˈ n ɪ k ə l ə ˈ t ɛ s l ə /; [1] Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American [2] [3] engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. [4]
Nikola Tesla patented the Tesla coil circuit on April 25, 1891. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and first publicly demonstrated it May 20, 1891 in his lecture " Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination " before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College , New York.
"Fragments of Olympian Gossip" is a poem that Nikola Tesla composed in the late 1920s for his friend the German poet and mystic George Sylvester Viereck. It made fun of the scientific establishment of the day. [1] While listening on my cosmic phone I caught words from the Olympus blown. A newcomer was shown around;
A team investigates mysteries involving the work of Nikola Tesla.Shortly before his death in 1943, Tesla claimed to have had 80 trunks containing details of his work, but much fewer were ever found: in the first episode, the team investigates whether there was a cover-up to suppress his work.
The Wardenclyffe Power Plant prototype, intended by Nikola Tesla to be a "World Wireless" telecommunications facility.. The World Wireless System was a turn of the 20th century proposed telecommunications and electrical power delivery system designed by inventor Nikola Tesla based on his theories of using Earth and its atmosphere as electrical conductors.
The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, forgotten genius of electricity (ISBN 0-7472-7588-2 : OCLC 40839685) is a 1999 book by Robert Lomas detailing the life of Nikola Tesla. Lomas covers the times of the electric engineer in the United States and the inventors' work.
Marc Jeffrey Seifer (born 17 February 1948) is an American author who has published books on handwriting analysis (), human consciousness and the mind, biographies of the inventor Nikola Tesla, and several works of fiction. [1]
Tower to the People - Tesla's Dream at Wardenclyffe Continues is a 2015 documentary film directed by Joseph Sikorski about Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower.The film documents the history and subsequent decline of the Wardenclyffe complex designed and built by Tesla in Shoreham, New York, as the main laboratory and facility for his experiments on wireless power transmission.