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My
Inventions - The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, Ben Johnston (Editor)
 Nikola
Tesla was born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) on July
9, 1856, and died January 7, 1943. He was the electrical engineer
who invented the AC (alternating current) induction motor, which
made the universal transmission and distribution of electricity
possible. Tesla began his studies in physics and mathematics at
Graz Polytechnic, and then took philosophy at the University of
Prague. He worked as an electrical engineer in Budapest, Hungary,
and subsequently in France and Germany. In 1888 his discovery that
a magnetic field could be made to rotate if two coils at right angles
are supplied with AC current 90Á out of phase made possible the
invention of the AC induction motor. The major advantage of this
motor being its brush less operation, which many at the time believed
impossible.
Tesla moved to
the United States in 1884, where he worked for Thomas Edison
who quickly became a rival Edison being an advocate of the
inferior DC power transmission system. During this time, Tesla
was commissioned with the design of the AC generators
installed at Niagara Falls. George Westinghouse purchased the
patents to his induction motor, and made it the basis of the
Westinghouse power system which still underlies the modern
electrical power industry today. He also did notable research
on high-voltage electricity and wireless communication; at one
point creating an earthquake which shook the ground for
several miles around his New York laboratory. He also devised
a system which anticipated worldwide wireless communications,
fax machines, radar, radio- guided missiles and aircraft.
Nikola Tesla is
the true unsung prophet of the electronic age; without whom
our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power
generation and transmission, radio and television would all
have been impossible. Yet his life and times have vanished
largely from public access. This autobiography is released to
remedy this situation.
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/teslaautobio.html
 Hall
of Fame - Nicola Tesla (1856-1943)
Nikola (sometimes spelled as Nicola) Tesla was born in
Yugoslavia in 1856. His father was a priest as his mother an
illiterate farmworker with a knack for invention. At the age
of 24, while working for the American Telephone Company in
Budapest, Tesla had a nervous breakdown.
During his
recovery period, while walking through the park with a friend,
Tesla got the idea of a new way to generate alternating
current (AC) power. However, since he had no way to pay for
parts and make the actual device, it would have to wait until
later to be created.
http://madsciencelaboratories.com/halloffame/tesla.html
Nikola
Tesla
Brent Turner - bturner@apc.net
Nikola Tesla was an electrical inventor, and lived during the
late 1800's into the mid-1900's. He was a brilliant person,
yet was an enigma to practically everyone. Known for his
eccentric lifestyle, Tesla nevertheless maintained a rather
high social profile, despite his prolific inventiveness. Some
of his phobias included pearl earrings worn by women, never
staying in a hotel room or floor whose number was divisable by
three, and insisting on a large number of napkins at every
meal with which he would meticulously polish his silverware.
Tesla had a good number of friends, one of which was Samuel
Clemmons, also known as Mark Twain.
Tesla's main
claim to fame lay with his invention of the alternating
current motor. Tesla believed that alternating current was
vastly superior to (Edison's) direct current, but the problem
was the lack of a practical motor. Alternating current is
practical because of the fact that it can be altered or
converted to suit a variety of situations. For example, if the
voltage is made quite high, then the current necessary for a
specific level of power is very low. This low current then
becomes very efficient when sending electrical power over very
long wires. (This is the reason why the power lines running
across the countryside are at very high voltages.)
Tesla also
worked with radio-frequency electromagnetic waves, and despite
the claims made by Marconi, actually did invent the idea of
Radio as we know it today. (There are numerous patents which
bear this out.) In working with radio waves, Tesla created the
Tesla coil
as a means to generate and receive this form of energy.
Tesla
eventually died, literally pennyless, on January 7th, 1943. It
is rather sad that a man who gave the world so much, received
so little for his efforts. History books have been unkind as
well. Even today, many texts still credit Marconi with the
invention of radio, despite the Supreme Court decision which
overruled the Marconi patent, awarding it to Tesla. In many
parts of this country, people still refer to the electric
utility as the 'Edison Company', even though they use the
Tesla-Westinghouse alternating current system, NOT
Edison's direct current. At the Niagra Falls power generating
station, a small statue of Tesla is purposely left
unilluminated at night. It has been said that Tesla is the
Forgotten Father of Technology. Tesla himself once commented
"... The present is theirs. (skeptics of the day) The
future, for which I really worked, is mine." How true
indeed.
http://www.apc.net/bturner/tesla.htm
Nikola Tesla- inventor, engineer, scientist
Bogdan R. Kosanovic - bogdan@telogy.com
The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and
scientist
Born on July
9/10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary)
Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York (USA)
Inventions: a telephone
repeater, rotating magnetic field principle, polyphase alternating-current
system, induction motor, alternating-current power transmission,
Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication, radio, fluorescent
lights, and more than 700 other patents.
http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla
 Nikola
Tesla
Ron Kurtus - ron@ronkurtus.com
Nikola Tesla was a prolific inventor who emigrated to America,
worked for Thomas Edison, and was later instrumental in the
development of alternating current (AC) electricity. He was a
genius who seemed short-changed in his quest for fame and
fortune in science.
Tesla was a
person with a tremendous curiosity of things scientific. Add
to that was his focus, hard work and his creative genius.
These factors all contributed to the number of outstanding
inventions he created throughout his life.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/biographies/tesla.htm
THE SPIRIT
OF TESLA
The spirit of Nikola Tesla continues to reach out from the
past. Experimenters and Researchers, who have made do
with their own resources, have identified with the trials and
travails of Nikola Tesla and his huge successes in spite of
the odds against him. His character and drive were key
to his scientific achievements. It seems to us that as a
person who struggled and fought for his science and for man in
general, he set a tone for responsible solutions to big
problems.
http://www.tesla.org/
Tesla, Nikola - Man out of Time
Nick Francesco
Tesla invented just about everything. As you work on a computer,
remember Tesla. His Tesla Coil supplies the high voltage for the
picture tube you use. The electricity for your computer comes from
a Tesla-designed AC generator, is sent through a Tesla transformer,
and gets to your house through 3-phase Tesla power.
Here's a short
list of some of the stuff he invented:
And here's a short
list of some of the other stuff he fooled around with:
And then, of
course, there's that mysterious "black box..."
http://www.nickf.com/tesla.htm
Rich's
Tribute to Nikola Tesla
Richard Pate
What follows here is a listing of pages about Nikola Tesla and therefore comprise my tribute to a man that was very gifted and talented, and unfortunately, he is all but forgotten and almost completely unacknowledged in the technological field.
http://www.advancedtomfoolery.com/teslatoc.htm
Tesla
Resources Site
Kevin Nardelle - knardell@accesscom.net
Nikola Tesla: All the information you need for building or
researching Tesla's Inventions. Detailed instructions on
building tesla coils and components.
http://www.icorp.net/users/kev/tesla/
WIRELESS
ELECTRICITY
Melvin D. Saunders - seeker@tiac.net
A Tesla coil is a special transformer that takes a small
amount of power and boosts it rapidly to a great deal of
power. The high-frequency output of even a small Tesla coil
can light up fluorescent tubes held several feet away without
any wire connections. Even a large number of spent or
discarded fluorescent tubes (their burned out cathodes are
irrelevant) will light up if hung near a long wire running
from a Tesla coil while using less than 100 watts drawn by the
coil itself when plugged into an electrical outlet! Since the
Tesla coil steps up the voltage to such a high degree, the
alternating oscillations achieve sufficient excitations within
the tubes of gases to produce lighting at a minimal expense of
original power! Fluorescent tubes can be held under
high-tension wires to produce the same lighting up effect.
http://www.tiac.net/users/seeker/froc/wireless.html
Complete
Listing of Tesla's Patents
email
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdk96/invn.html
Nikola Tesla Information Source
http://www.hightension.org/
Australian
Nikola Tesla Society
After starting out with about 20 members in 1993, the Australian
Nikola Tesla Society has slowed down and become inactive
in the last few years. This was mainly due to the instigators
of the society having other important personal life
commitments.
However, the
intention is to resurrect the society in the latter part of
1999. ANTS will be based in the city of Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia and will hold regular meetings there,
because that's were most of the past members have come from.
All the original members of ANTS will be invited to retain
their "founding" membership and given a new term of
membership based on the amount of fees they paid in the past.
Interstate
"branches" will operate throughout Australia where a
few members live in relative close proximity. Overseas members
will be welcomed. If
you would like to find out more information please contact Glenn
Baddeley by email.
http://home.mira.net/~ants/index.html
Edison
Vs. Tesla - The War of the Currents
Ariel Amir - ariela@leyada.jlm.k12.ac.il
At the time of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, less than a
hundred years ago, electricity was virtually not used. Of
course, in 1889 J.J.Thompson discovered the elctron, and
before that Ohm and a few of his physicians friends
investigated the nature of elctricity and magnetism, and they
should be credited for their excellent work, and yet, they
didn't make their discoveries come to life. Electricty was not
useful for the ordinary person. Until...
http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/proj/edsntsla/hist1.htm
Nikola
Tesla Museum
The Museum of Nikola Tesla in Belgrade keeps complete personal
belongings of Nikola Tesla, which were, according to his last
will and thanks to the exceptional efforts of his nephew Sava
Kosanović, collected and transfered to Belgrade after his
deathin New York in 1943. The wealth of arhive material,
consisting of more than 150.000 various document referring to
the life and creative work of Nikola Tesla, as well as the
significance of his inventions which are presented at the
exhibition, make this Museum a unique institution both in
Yugoslavija and in the world.
http://www.yurope.com/org/tesla/
NIKOLA
TESLA - Forgotten American Scientist
John W. Wagner - jwwagner@jwwagner.cnc.net
Readers, we are not talking about an obscure inventor lost in
history, nor are we talking about a mad scientist who
performed magic. Nevertheless, in the nineteenth century when
he made his early discoveries, they may have seemed like magic.
We are talking about a man whose major scientific gifts to the
world (of AC power transmission and Radio), more than anything
else, caused a Second Industrial Revolution...
http://www.ntesla.org
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