WHO WAS NIKOLA TESLA?
1856-1943
What did Nikola Tesla invent?
Nikola Tesla invented modern electrical distribution. Before his invention of the AC induction motor and related technologies (c 1887), most people relied on candlelight. The first industrial-scale electrical power plant was built by his design at Niagara Falls in the 1890s.
Tesla is one of the most significant figures in the early science of radio and he is credited as the inventor of remote control.
Tesla was a major contributor to the earliest advancements in consumer and industrial lighting. Out of his many accomplishments in this area, Tesla appears to be the first light-maker in history concerned with mood lighting and color.
After the initial discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen, Tesla was among the first and most significant pioneers to explore the use of X-rays for medical scanning devices.
Many consider him to be the most important scientist in all of history.
FREE BOOKS & MEDIA ON NIKOLA TESLA
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-The Problem of Increasing Human Energy by Nikola Tesla
-A Speech Delivered by Nikola Tesla
-An Interview of Nikola Tesla by Curtis Brown
-An Interview of Nikola Tesla by Arthur Brisbane
-Free Tesla Library
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Science and Invention Magazine; April 1930; “Electric Lighting.”
Excerpt:
In the list of the Nikola Tesla's many inventions may be found a variety of novel electric lamps, all of which were designed to operate in conjunction with specially designed high frequency power supply units. Some of these lamps were the forerunners of our present day fluorescent tubes. In fact, not long ago a small Californian company announced the development of a high frequency electronically powered fluorescent bulb, dubbed the E-Lamp, which bears a striking resemblance to a bulb that Tesla designed and built nearly one hundred years ago. The principal upon which they both work is identical. Another type of lamp was essentially the same as the slender neon filled tubes that are now commonly bent into the shapes of letters and used in storefront advertising.
(Right) An x-ray scan of a human chest taken by Dr. Tesla; published in Electrical Review April 8, 1896.
(Left) Tesla’s lighting installation of bent tubes to spell the word “light” photographed in darkness; published in Century Magazine April 1895.
Nikola Tesla’s “boats” are the first remote control devices in history. He shocked large audiences at public events with devices like this one years before this photo was published in Century Magazine June 1900.
