GE105 SCIENCE, TECHNOLGY AND SOCIETY

Nicola Tesla
&
Louis Pasteur
 Louis Pasteur
1822-1895
Early Life

• Born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, in the Jura

region of France.
• Grew up in the town of Arbois
• Father Jean-Joseph Pasteur
• Pasteur was skilled at drawing and painting
• Pasteur had been partially paralyzed since 1868, due
to a severe brain stroke
• Louis Pasteur discovered that microbes were
responsible for souring alcohol
• He died on September 28, 1895.
• Pasteur's remains were transferred to a Neo-
Byzantine crypt at the Pasteur Institute in 1896.
 Contributions
• Study of Optical Activity
• Fermentation and
Pasteurization
• Germ Theory
• Attenuating Microbes for
Vaccines: Fowl Cholera and
Anthrax
• Rabies and the Beginnings of
the Institut Pasteur
 Nicola Tesla
1856-1943
Early Life

• Born July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian

Empire
• Died January 7, 1943, New York, New
York, U.S.
• His father was an Orthodox priest
• His mother was unschooled but highly
intelligent.
• He attended the Technical University at
Graz, Austria, and the University of
Prague.
• He first found employment with Thomas
Edison
 Background

Tesla studied math and physics

at the Technical University of
Graz and philosophy at the
University of Prague. In 1882,
while on a walk, he came up with
the idea for a brushless AC
motor, making the first sketches
of its rotating electromagnets in
the sand of the path. Later that
year he moved to Paris and got a
job repairing direct current (DC)
power plants with the
Continental Edison Company.
Two years later he immigrated to
the United States.
 Contributions
• Tesla Coil
• Remote Control
• X-Ray
 Tesla Coil
• Nikola Tesla patented the Tesla coil
circuit on April 25, 1891, and first
publicly demonstrated it May 20, 1891
in his lecture "Experiments with
Alternate Currents of Very High
Frequency and Their Application to
Methods of Artificial Illumination"
before the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers at Columbia
College, New York.
 Remote Control
• Nikola Tesla created one of the
world's first wireless remote controls,
which he unveiled at Madison Square
Garden in New York City in 1898. He
called his fledgling system, which
could be used to control a range of
mechanical contraptions, a
"teleautomaton." For his
demonstration, Tesla employed a
miniature boat controlled by radio
waves. The boat had a small metal
antenna that could receive exactly
one radio frequency.
 X-Ray
• produced the first x-ray image in the
United States when he attempted to
obtain an image of Mark Twain with
the vacuum tube. Surprisingly, instead
of showing Twain, the resulting image
showed the screw for adjusting the
camera lens. Later, Tesla managed to
obtain images of the human body,
which he called shadowgraphs. Tesla
sent his images to Wilhelm Conrad
Roentgen shortly after Roentgen
published his discovery on November
8, 1895. Although Tesla gave
Roentgen full credit for the finding,
Roentgen congratulated Tesla on his
sophisticated images, wondering how
he had achieved such impressive
results.
 Members

Kahrl Vincent Ramos

Cindy R. Lopez
Brian Angelo S. Dulay