Nikola Tesla (185k)

The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist

Born on July 9, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Rep. of Serbian Krayina)
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.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Tesla be", and all was light.

B.A. Behrend, AIEE annual meeting, New York City, May 18, 1917.

• a short biography
• Chicago World's Fair, 1893
• Niagara Falls
• in Colorado Springs, a photograph (105k) taken during an experiment on December 31, 1899. Tesla reads a book in the background, while several million volts lightnings cascade around the laboratory. The roar that accompanied such discharges could be heard ten miles away.
• Tesla on...
• others on Tesla
• anecdotes
• suggested readings and videos
• related WWW links

• acknowledgments

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