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In July 1888, George Westinghouse licensed Nikola Tesla's American patents for the induction motor and transformer designs. Tesla contract with Westinghouse turned over A.C. development and patents to the Westinghouse Corporation - and thus Tesla became wealthy from this keen business move.
Leland I. Anderson (1928-October 15, 2021) was a technical writer and electrical engineer who was credited with helping renew interest in the work of Nikola Tesla. [1] His long-time interest in Nikola Tesla took root in the early 1950s, [2] and his activities since then have resulted in his recognition as one of the world's foremost Tesla historians. [3]
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]
The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, 1993. O'Neill, John Jacob, Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla, 1944. Paperback reprint 1994, ISBN 978-0-914732-33-4. (ed. Prodigal Genius is available online) Lomas, Robert, The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity, 1999.
The (Delayed) Death of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla didn’t live forever. The inventor died under-appreciated, alone, and in poverty on January 7, 1943, from a coronary thrombosis, according to ...
Tesla, aged 37, 1893, photo by Napoleon Sarony. Tesla wrote a number of books and articles for magazines and journals. [1] Among his books are My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, compiled and edited by David Hatcher Childress; and The Tesla Papers.
Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900 (ISBN 8617073527) (Published by Nolit: Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1978) is a book compiled and edited by Aleksandar Marinčić and Vojin Popović detailing the work of Nikola Tesla at his experimental station in Colorado Springs at the turn of the 20th century.
In the early 1890s Nikola Tesla began his research into high-frequency electricity. Tesla was aware of Hertz's experiments with electromagnetic waves from 1889 on [12] [13] but, (like many scientists of that time) thought, even if radio waves existed, they would probably only travel in straight lines making them useless for long range ...