NIKOLA TESLA

ENGINEER-INVENTOR-PYSICIST
PICTURES OF NIKOLA TESLA
 NIKOLA TESLA BIRTH

• Nikola Tesla was born on July 10,1856 in Smiljian, Lika, then part of
Croatia, a region in the Austo-Hungrarian Empire.
• Tesla studied at several institutions of higher learning including the
Polytechnic institute in Graz, Austria.
• Tesla had originally planned on studying Physics and Mathematics, but
found himself fascinated with Electricity.
• Tesla first started his career with a telephone company in Budapest, in
1881. He was an Electrical Engineer.
 EARLY CAREER IN EDISON COMPANY

• In the early 1880’s Tesla joined the Continental Edison Company in Paris.
• Thomas Edison offered Nikola Tesla an opportunity to work for Edison himself in
New York.
• Tesla came to the united states in 1884.
• Tesla and Edison had two differing views on Electric Current, Edison was in favor of
Direct Current (DC), and Tesla in favor of Alternating Current (AC).
• Direct current flows all in one direction, meanwhile Alternating Current changes
direction several times per second.
• Tesla believed that AC would be the future as it could transport much farther along
power lines than the very limited DC, which could only go about 2 miles.
WORKING WITH WESTINGHOUSE

• Tesla had designed and held 40 patents on generators, motors, and transformers,
all developed for the AC system.
• George Westinghouse purchased the patents from Tesla in hopes of bringing
Alternating Current to America, and therefore the world.
• In 1882 Tesla created the Induction motor, based off his recently discovered
Rotating Magnetic Field principle. The Induction motor is used throughout the
world today, in both industrial and home settings.
• In 1893 Tesla demonstrated his work on Alternating Current at the “World
Columbian Expo” in Chicago. This lead to AC power beating DC power, and
being the standard used across the globe, and it is still in use today.
TESLA’S NOTABLE WORK

• Tesla held a patent for the basic system of radio, which was later used, along with Tesla’s
schematics, by Marconi when he created his radio. The US Supreme Court found
Marconi’s most important patent invalid, citing Tesla as the inventor of radio technology.
• Wireless communication and Wireless transmission of electricity. • Designed a Vertical
Take off and Land (VTOL) Bi-plane in 1928. Nearly 3 Decades before any other VTOL
craft was designed.
• Tesla released photos of a man taken with X-Rays in the “Electrical Review” at the same
time as Roentgen announced his discovery of X-Ray technology.
• The “Tesla Coil” may be his most notable work, a Tesla coil creates an extremely
powerful Magnetic Field, and has been shown to wirelessly light up Florescent lights
from 50 feet away.
TESLA COIL
WARDENCLYFFE LABORATORY

• Using what he discovered in Colorado Springs, Tesla built the Wardenclyffe laboratory on
Long Island.
• The tower was 187 feet high, and had a 68 foot in diameter copper dome at the top, housing
the magnifying transmitter.
• This tower was supposed to be the first broadcast station, capable of transmitting power
without wires to anywhere on Earth. This would essentially turn the whole planet into a
Dynamo, allowing unlimited amounts of electricity to be projected to anywhere on the globe.
• Unfortunately the Tower was never finished, as Tesla’s Financier withdrew his funding due
to a dispute over the use of the tower. His famous comment was “If anyone can draw on the
power, where do we put the meter?” Meaning that if you can get the power anywhere on the
globe, how can you charge someone for the electricity?
DEATH OF NIKOLA TESLA

• Tesla Died on January 7th, 1943, in his room at the Hotel New Yorker,
where he had stayed for ten years.
• He was Cremated, and his ashes placed in a Golden Sphere, which was
Tesla’s favorite shape. His ashes are permanently on display in the Tesla
Museum in Belgrade.
FAMOUS QUOTES OF TESLA

• If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy,
frequency and vibration.
• If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have
the key to the universe.
• Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain.
The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the
material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
•  What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
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