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For other uses, see Nikola Tesla (disambiguation).

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Nikola Tesla
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$\"Head-and-shoulder$ Tesla, c. 1890
Born	(1856-07-10)10 July 1856 Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia)
Died	7 January 1943(1943-01-07) (aged 86) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
Citizenship	Austria (1856\u20131891) United States (1891\u20131943)
Alma mater	Graz University of Technology (dropped out)
Occupations	Engineer futurist inventor
Awards	Order of St. Sava (1892) Elliott Cresson Medal (1894) Order of Prince Danilo I (1895) Order of the Yugoslav Crown (1931) Order of the White Eagle (1937) Order of the White Lion (1937)
Engineering career
Discipline	Electrical engineering Mechanical engineering
Projects	Wireless power transfer
Significant design	Induction motor
Significant advance	Polyphase electric power
Awards	AIEE Edison Medal (1916) John Scott Medal (1934)
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Nikola Tesla (/\u02c8n\u026ak\u0259l\u0259 \u02c8t\u025bsl\u0259/;^[1] Serbian Cyrillic: \u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430 \u0422\u0435\u0441\u043b\u0430 [n\u01d0kola t\u00easla]; 10 July 1856 \u2013 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American^[2]^[3] engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.^[4]\n

Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he immigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His AC induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.\n

Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wirelessly controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.\n

After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943.^[5] Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the International System of Units (SI) measurement of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.^[6]\n

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v t e Nikola Tesla
Career and inventions	\n Patents \n Plasma lamp\n plasma globe \n Polyphase system \n Alternating-current commutatorless induction motor \n Tesla Experimental Station \n Teleforce \n Telegeodynamics \n Tesla coil\n history \n Wireless power \n Resonant inductive coupling \n Radio control \n Tesla turbine \n Tesla's oscillator \n Tesla valve \n Three-phase electric power \n Wardenclyffe Tower \n Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing \n
Writings	\n The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla \n Colorado Springs Notes, 1899\u20131900 \n \"Fragments of Olympian Gossip\" \n My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla \n
Other	\n War of the currents \n Westinghouse Electric \n World Wireless System \n In popular culture \n
Related	\n Nikola Tesla Museum \n Nikola Tesla Memorial Center \n Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe \n IEEE Nikola Tesla Award \n Tesla Satellite Award \n Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport \n New Yorker Hotel \n The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980 film) \n Tesla \u2013 Lightning in His Hand (2003 opera) \n The Prestige (2006 film) \n Tower to the People (2015 documentary) \n Tesla (2016 film) \n The Tesla World Light (2017 film) \n The Current War (2019 film) \n \"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror\" (2020 TV episode) \n Tesla (2020 film) \n Tesla: Man Out of Time \n Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla \n The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century \n Boat \n SI derived unit \n Lunar crater \n Asteroid \n

v t e Telecommunications
History	\n Beacon \n Broadcasting \n Cable protection system \n Cable TV \n Communications satellite \n Computer network \n Data compression\n audio \n DCT \n image \n video \n Digital media\n Internet video \n online video platform \n social media \n streaming \n Drums \n Edholm's law \n Electrical telegraph \n Fax \n Heliographs \n Hydraulic telegraph \n Information Age \n Information revolution \n Internet \n Mass media \n Mobile phone\n Smartphone \n Optical telecommunication \n Optical telegraphy \n Pager \n Photophone \n Prepaid mobile phone \n Radio \n Radiotelephone \n Satellite communications \n Semaphore\n Phryctoria \n Semiconductor\n device \n MOSFET \n transistor \n Smoke signals \n Telecommunications history \n Telautograph \n Telegraphy \n Teleprinter (teletype) \n Telephone \n The Telephone Cases \n Television\n digital \n streaming \n Undersea telegraph line \n Videotelephony \n Whistled language \n Wireless revolution \n
Pioneers	\n Nasir Ahmed \n Edwin Howard Armstrong \n Mohamed M. Atalla \n John Logie Baird \n Paul Baran \n John Bardeen \n Alexander Graham Bell \n Emile Berliner \n Tim Berners-Lee \n Francis Blake \n Jagadish Chandra Bose \n Charles Bourseul \n Walter Houser Brattain \n Vint Cerf \n Claude Chappe \n Yogen Dalal \n Donald Davies \n Daniel Davis Jr. \n Amos Dolbear \n Thomas Edison \n Philo Farnsworth \n Reginald Fessenden \n Lee de Forest \n Elisha Gray \n Oliver Heaviside \n Robert Hooke \n Erna Schneider Hoover \n Harold Hopkins \n Gardiner Greene Hubbard \n Bob Kahn \n Dawon Kahng \n Charles K. Kao \n Narinder Singh Kapany \n Hedy Lamarr \n Roberto Landell \n Innocenzo Manzetti \n Guglielmo Marconi \n Robert Metcalfe \n Antonio Meucci \n Samuel Morse \n Jun-ichi Nishizawa \n Charles Grafton Page \n Radia Perlman \n Alexander Stepanovich Popov \n Tivadar Pusk\u00e1s \n Johann Philipp Reis \n Claude Shannon \n Almon Brown Strowger \n Henry Sutton \n Charles Sumner Tainter \n Nikola Tesla \n Camille Tissot \n Alfred Vail \n Thomas A. Watson \n Charles Wheatstone \n Vladimir K. Zworykin \n Internet pioneers \n
Transmission media	\n Coaxial cable \n Fiber-optic communication\n optical fiber \n Free-space optical communication \n Molecular communication \n Radio waves\n wireless \n Transmission line\n telecommunication circuit \n
Network topology and switching	\n Bandwidth \n Links \n Network switching\n circuit \n packet \n Nodes\n terminal \n Telephone exchange \n
Multiplexing	\n Space-division \n Frequency-division \n Time-division \n Polarization-division \n Orbital angular-momentum \n Code-division \n
Concepts	\n Communication protocol \n Computer network \n Data transmission \n Store and forward \n Telecommunications equipment \n
Types of network	\n Cellular network \n Ethernet \n ISDN \n LAN \n Mobile \n NGN \n Public Switched Telephone \n Radio \n Television \n Telex \n UUCP \n WAN \n Wireless network \n
Notable networks	\n ARPANET \n BITNET \n CYCLADES \n FidoNet \n Internet \n Internet2 \n JANET \n NPL network \n Toasternet \n Usenet \n
Locations	\n Africa \n Americas\n North \n South \n Antarctica \n Asia \n Europe \n Oceania \n Global telecommunications regulation bodies \n
\n $\"\"$ Telecommunication portal \n $\"\"$ Category \n $\"\"$ Outline \n $\"\"$ Commons \n

v t e Scientists whose names are used as units
SI base units	\n Andr\u00e9-Marie Amp\u00e8re (ampere) \n Lord Kelvin (kelvin) \n
SI derived units	\n Henri Becquerel (becquerel) \n Anders Celsius (degree Celsius) \n Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (coulomb) \n Michael Faraday (farad) \n Louis Harold Gray (gray) \n Joseph Henry (henry) \n Heinrich Hertz (hertz) \n James Prescott Joule (joule) \n Isaac Newton (newton) \n Georg Ohm (ohm) \n Blaise Pascal (pascal) \n Werner von Siemens (siemens) \n Rolf Maximilian Sievert (sievert) \n Nikola Tesla (tesla) \n Alessandro Volta (volt) \n James Watt (watt) \n Wilhelm Eduard Weber (weber) \n
Non-SI metric (cgs) units	\n Anders Jonas \u00c5ngstr\u00f6m (angstrom) \n Peter Debye (debye) \n Lor\u00e1nd E\u00f6tv\u00f6s (eotvos) \n Galileo Galilei (gal) \n Carl Friedrich Gauss (gauss) \n William Gilbert (gilbert) \n Heinrich Kayser (kayser) \n Johann Heinrich Lambert (lambert) \n Samuel Langley (langley) \n James Clerk Maxwell (maxwell) \n Hans Christian \u00d8rsted (oersted) \n Jean L\u00e9onard Marie Poiseuille (poise) \n Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (stokes) \n John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (rayl) \n
Imperial and US customary units	\n Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (degree Fahrenheit) \n Johann Heinrich Lambert (foot-lambert) \n William John Macquorn Rankine (degree Rankine) \n
Non-systematic units	\n Alexander Graham Bell (bel/decibel) \n Marie Curie & Pierre Curie (curie) \n John Dalton (dalton) \n Michael Faraday (faraday) \n Heinrich Mache (mache) \n John Napier (neper) \n Ren\u00e9 Antoine Ferchault de R\u00e9aumur (degree R\u00e9aumur) \n Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen (roentgen) \n J. J. Thomson (thomson) \n Evangelista Torricelli (torr) \n
List of scientists whose names are used as units \u00b7 Scientists whose names are used in physical constants \u00b7 People whose names are used in chemical element names

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Early years

Working at Budapest Telephone Exchange

Working at Edison

Moving to the United States

Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing

AC and the induction motor

Market turmoil

New York laboratories

Tesla coil

Citizenship

Wireless lighting

Polyphase system and the Columbian Exposition

Steam-powered oscillating generator

Consulting on Niagara

The Nikola Tesla Company

Lab fire

X-ray experimentation

Radio remote control

Wireless power

Colorado Springs

Wardenclyffe

Later years

Bladeless turbine

Wireless lawsuits

Nobel Prize rumors

Other awards, patents and ideas

Living circumstances

Birthday press conferences

Death

Personal life and character

Views and beliefs

On experimental and theoretical physics

On society

On religion

Literary works

Legacy and honors

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

External links

Nikola Tesla

Talks

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