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"Egg of Columbus" demonstration at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Tesla's Egg of Columbus was a device exhibited in the Westinghouse Electric display at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition to explain the rotating magnetic field that drove the new alternating current induction motors designed by inventor Nikola Tesla by using that magnetic field to spin a copper egg on end.
Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Later in life, Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, gaining it the colloquial title "Tesla's earthquake machine ".
A model of Nikola Tesla's first induction motor at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia Squirrel-cage rotor construction, showing only the center three laminations. In 1824, the French physicist François Arago formulated the existence of rotating magnetic fields, termed Arago's rotations.
U.S. patent 487,796 - System of Electrical Transmission of Power - 1892 December 13 - Alternating current generator consisting of independent armature-circuits formed by conductors alternately disposed; Currents developed differ in phase and the field magnet poles in excess of the number of armature-circuits; Motor having independent energizing circuits connected to the armature-circuit of the ...
The motor used polyphase current, which generated a rotating magnetic field to turn the motor (a principle that Tesla claimed to have conceived in 1882). [ 67 ] [ 68 ] [ 69 ] This innovative electric motor, patented in May 1888, was a simple self-starting design that did not need a commutator , thus avoiding sparking and the high maintenance of ...
German physicist Heinrich Hertz proves the existence of electromagnetic waves, including what would come to be called radio waves. 1888: Italian physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris publishes a paper on the induction motor, and Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla gets a US patent on the same device [4] [5] 1890
Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty; 101 Studios / courtesy Everett Collection. Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala on May 2, 2022 in New York City; Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla in 'The Current War'
A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891. [1] It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity. [2] [3] Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits.