Nikola Tesla Expo|2011

TESLA FORUM OF WA and its Expo partners, the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, City of Perth, Western Power and Scitech will host the Nikola Tesla Expo|2011 in Perth in July 2011. Expo|2011 will showcase Nikola Teslas documents, notes and scientific artifacts from the museums Tesla archives. The event will be centred on the historic Perth Town Hall and will include Tesla Forum of WAs 2011 Annual Dinner. Special keynote speakers will highlight Teslas extraordinary genius and his contribution to modern day life and science. Tesla Forum of WA will coordinate a series of educational talks, meetings and other events dedicated to honouring the life and achievements of a man who has been variously described as The father of the 21st century, The genius who lit the World and other well deserved titles and yet he is little known outside scientific circles. Expo|2011 sets out to generate public awareness of Teslas work and how it is alive and thriving in todays high tech, connected and developing sciences. Tesla Forum of WA will be releasing details information of Expo|2011 as planning proceeds for this historic event. To be included in future newsletters, receive updates and information about Nikola Tesla Expo|2011 please send your email address and contact details to: info@teslaforum.com www.teslaforum.com.au

Nikola Tesla
THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD The father of the radio and modern electrical transmission His alternating current induction motor is considered one of the ten greatest discoveries of all time Fluorescent lighting and lasers Wireless communications and loudspeakers Wireless transmission of electrical energy Remote control, remote sensing and robotics Vertical take off aircraft and bladeless turbines X-rays and vacuum tube amplifiers His vision included exploration of solar energy and wave power He foresaw interplanetary communications and satellites Tesla, the visionary with over 1500 inventions and 700 patents

TESLA FORUM OF WA
proudly presents

Nikola

Now an insight into Teslas remarkable work, his life and his contribution to science and modern society is coming to Perth in 2011 FROM THE ARCHIVES AND COLLECTION OF THE TESLA MUSEUM BELGRADE, SERBIA

Expo|2011
1-17 July 2011, Perth Town Hall
(Cnr Hay & Barrack Streets, Perth) Major Sponsors

Tesla

Nikola Tesla Expo|2011

1-17 July 2011 Perth Town Hall
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The Nikola Tesla Timeline

1856 Nikola Tesla was born to Serbian parents in Smiljan in Lika on July 10th, 1856, in what was part of Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Yugoslavia and nowdays Croatia. 1875 Tesla begins technical schooling in Graz, Austria and learns to speak five languages fluently, while being able to converse in nine. 1880 Tesla begins working for the American Telephone Company in Budapest and suffers a nervous breakdown. 1882 Tesla conceives of the AC induction motor meticulously detailing the construction in his notebook. Tesla begins working for Continental Edison in Paris, France, helping them to resolve problems with their DC dynamos. 1884 Tesla arrives in New York at age 28 and begins working for Thomas Edison. Edison promises to pay Tesla $50,000 if he can improve the DC dynamos performance. 1885 Tesla succeeds beyond Edisons expectations, but Edison reneges on his promise to pay. Tesla resigns in disgust. 1886 Tesla launches Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, but the financial backers refuse to fund Teslas AC Motor, and they fire Tesla. 1887 Tesla builds the first AC Induction Motor, the worlds first brushless two phase 1/5 Horse Power AC motor. Tesla files key worldwide patents, locking the rights to the invention and makes a strategic deal with George Westinghouse to manufacture his motors. 1888 Teslas design is better and much safer and becomes the worlds standard. 1891 Tesla builds his own experimental laboratory and lights evacuated tubes with no wires, demonstrating wireless power transmission. 1892 Tesla discovers X-ray radiation three years before Willhelm Roentgen. The first polyphase power system is installed and Tesla is granted 40 patents, thereby locking in his rotating magnetic field principles and polyphase power distribution technology. 1893 Tesla demonstrates a wireless transmitter/receiver system two years before Marconi. Westinghouse and Tesla provide AC power to light the Chicagos Worlds Fair. 1894 Tesla generates 1,000,000 volts using a conical air core Tesla Coil. He later achieves 5 metre discharges (lightning) in his New York City lab. 1895 Tesla harnesses Niagara Falls, the first commercial twophase power plant, built by Westinghouse. Fire destroys Teslas laboratory, ruining his lifes work. 1898 Tesla demonstrates a wireless controlled boat. He also develops an electric igniter for gasoline engines, the ignition coil, basically the same automobile ignition system used today. 1899 Tesla begins his Colorado Springs research with wireless transmission of messages and electrical power. Frightening stories emerge of Teslas experiments with man-made balls of lightning being projected from his lab. 1900 Tesla begins building the Wardenclyffe Transmitter, a 200kW system. Teslas intentions are to intensify his Colorado Springs experiments, strictly for global radio communication, although he purposely hides other objectives. In late 1900 he was issued patents for methods of transmitting wireless energy. 1903 Tesla patents contain the basic principles of the logical and circuit elements basic to all modern computers. 1904 Marconi is awarded the patent for radio and Tesla begins his fight as the original inventor. 1906 Tesla creates the 200hp, 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine. 1909 Marconi wins the Nobel Prize for his invention of the radio. Tesla is furious that Marconi got the prize, and intensifies his long battle to correct the injustice. 1910 Teslas 100-5000hp bladeless turbines are tested in Waterside Power Station, New York 1915 Tesla signs over the Wardenclyffe deed to pay a $20,000 debt, and to help fund his lawsuit against Marconi. 1916 Tesla declares bankruptcy. He is penniless, owes back taxes and is living on credit at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. 1917 Irony prevails as Tesla receives the Edison Medal, the most prestigious honour the AIEE can bestow upon an engineer. 1928 Tesla receives his last US patent at age 72, Apparatus for Aerial Transportation similar to a helicopter or VTOL aircraft. 1931 Tesla at 75 is honoured on the cover of Time Magazine. 1935 Marconis patent claims on the radio are invalidated by the Court of Claims and Tesla is acknowledged to have been prior inventor of portions of Marconis patent. Legal red tape eventually reviewed by the US Supreme Court. 1943 Tesla 87, dies in New York on January 7. The FBI orders the seizure of Teslas papers and possessions although Tesla had been a U.S. citizen since 1891. The papers and scientific work were eventually released and are now housed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. 1944 Tesla is finally awarded the patent for radio, one year after his death. 1956 The tesla, a unit of magnetic flux density is named in Nikola Teslas honour. It is used in all work involving strong magnetic fields. 1 tesla is equivalent to 10,000 Gauss.