NIKOLA TESLA By Kristina Nikola Trgovačka škola Zagreb
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Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
born 10 July 1856 in Smiljan, modern-day Croatia an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical
engineer, physicist, and futurist
best known for his contributions to the design of the
modern alternating current electricity supply system
died 7 January 1943 in New York
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 his family house in Smiljan, Lika ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE
eidetic memory had a talent for making home craft
tools and mechanical appliances and the ability to memorize Serbian epic poems
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father Milutin was an Eastern Orthodox priest mother Đuka had never received a formal
education
she was never photographed had 3 sisters
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primary school in Smiljan - German, arithmetics, and religion
the Higher Real gymnasium in Karlovac the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz a brilliant student in his 1st year but got addicted
to gambling in his 2nd year at the college which ruined his graduation and he was not able to obtain a degree
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Higher Real gymnasium
Austrian Polytechnic
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Alternating Current inefficient and weak Edinson’s direct current (DC) alternating current – to Tesla all energies were cyclic 1880 constructed AC induction motor 1888 paper “A New System of Alternating Current Motors
and Transformers”
George Westinghouse bought his 40 patents “the war of the currents” – DC vs. AC AC - a superior system
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Tesla’s AC induction motor ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE
Light didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent
how light can be harnessed and distributed
developed and used fluorescent bulbs in
his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them
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Tesla Coil the most impressive and controversial one of his most famous inventions a high-frequency air-core transformer the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity utilizing
frequencies as a transmitter
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the Tesla Coil
radio technology 1892
X-rays 1896
radio remote control 1898
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an experimental station during 1899 experiments with a large coil operating in the
megavolts range, producing artificial lightning (and thunder) consisting of millions of volts and up to 135 feet (41 m) long discharges
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obtained $150,000 ($4,412,400 in today's
dollars) from JP Morgan in return for a 51% share of any generated wireless patents
Shoreham, New York from this facility, Tesla hoped to demonstrate
wireless transmission of electrical energy across the Atlantic
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 around 300 patents worldwide
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1894 Elliott Cresson Medal 1917 AIEE Edison Medal 1931 Order of the Yugoslav Crown 1934 John Scott Medal 1937 University of Paris Medal
etc.
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Hotel Waldorf Astoria since 1900 from 1922 moving to a new hotel
every few years leaving behind unpaid bills walked to the park every day to
feed the pigeons 1934 Hotel New Yorker – room 3327
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from 1931 Time magazine cover commemorating
his 75th birthday annual press conferences for his
birthday told reporters about his discoveries and
new experiments
1931 ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE
death at 86 of coronary thrombosis
New York City mayor read a eulogy live
over the WNYC radio while violin pieces "Ave Maria" and "Tamo daleko" were played in the background 2000 people attended a state funeral for
Tesla the ashes are displayed in a gold-plated
sphere on a marble pedestal in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade
gilded urn at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade
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born during a lightning storm
the idea for smartphone technology in 1901 had famous friends (like Mark Twain) suffered from insomnia and obsessive compulsive
behaviors (OCD) had a fear of germs
obsessed with number 3
pearls drove him crazy eidetic memory
a polyglot – spoke 8 languages ERASMUS+ INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS: OUR HERITAGE AND OUR FUTURE
worked every day from 9am until 6pm, with dinner from exactly
8:10 pm, at Delmonico's restaurant and later the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
for exercise, Tesla walked aroind 15km per day and he curled his toes
100 times for each foot every night, saying that it stimulated his brain cells
a vegetarian in his later years, eating only bread, milk, honey, and
vegetable juices
1.88 m tall and weighed 64 kg sleep habits – slept only 2 hours a night
celibacy – he never married
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The Nikola Tesla Award – for contribution to the generation
or utilization of electric power Tesla, Inc, an American electric car manufacturer
Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of Ericsson Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July (in Croatia too) Tesla, an SI-derived unit of magnetic inductivity
Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the moon 2244 Tesla, a minor planet
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