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  2. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia

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    Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan, Croatia.The site was made into a museum to honor him. [7]Nikola Tesla was born into an ethnic Serb family in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia), on 10 July 1856.

  3. Otis T. Carr - Wikipedia

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    Otis T. Carr (December 7, 1904 – September 20, 1982) first emerged into the 1950s flying saucer scene in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955 when he founded OTC Enterprises, a company that was supposed to advance and apply technology originally suggested by Nikola Tesla. The claim to be applying some idea of Tesla's was quite common among exploiters ...

  4. List of Nikola Tesla patents - Wikipedia

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    Cheney, Margaret, Tesla: man out of time, ISBN 0-7432-1536-2; The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla by Jim Glenn, 1994. The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 978-1-566-19266-8) is a book compiled and edited by Jim Glenn detailing the patents of Nikola Tesla.

  5. World Wireless System - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Nikola Tesla Memorial Center - Wikipedia

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    The Nikola Tesla Memorial Center is a cultural-historical site and museum located in Smiljan, Croatia, located at the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, one of the world's foremost engineers and inventors. It is dedicated to Tesla, who was born in 1856 in his Serb parents house in Smiljan, then part of the Kingdom of Croatia within the Austrian Empire .

  7. Nikola Tesla electric car hoax - Wikipedia

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    According to the story, in 1931, Tesla modified a Pierce-Arrow car in Buffalo, New York by removing the gasoline engine and replacing it with a brushless AC electric motor. The motor was purportedly powered by a "cosmic energy power receiver" contained in a box measuring 25 inches by 10 inches by 6 inches, which contained 12 radio vacuum tubes ...

  8. Tesla - Wikipedia

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    Tesla most commonly refers to: Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor Tesla, Inc. , an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.

  9. History of Tesla, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle manufacturer and clean energy company founded in San Carlos, California in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The company is named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. Tesla is the world's leading electric vehicle manufacturer, and, as of the end of 2021, Tesla's ...