Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and engineer who made numerous breakthroughs in the production, transmission, and application of electric power. He was born on July 9/10, 1856, in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now in Croatia) and died on January 7, 1943, in New York, U.S.
Tesla is best known for his discovery and patenting of the rotating magnetic field, which forms the basis of most alternating-current machinery. He also developed the three-phase system of electric power transmission. Additionally, he made significant contributions to the development of the first alternating current (AC) motor and the wireless transmission of power and information.
In his lifetime, Tesla held around 300 patents for his many inventions, including alternating motors, the fluorescent light, the rotating magnetic field, and the first wireless radio. He is also known as the first person to claim the possibility of using X-rays therapeutically in medicine.
Tesla believed in the importance of studying non-physical phenomena and the fluid electrical charges running beneath the Earth's surface. He dreamed of creating a source of inexhaustible, clean energy that was free for everyone and strongly opposed centralized coal-fired power stations.
Despite his many accomplishments, Tesla died penniless and living in a small New York City hotel room. His life was troubled by a host of obstacles, including fierce competition with other inventors, business failures, and lack of funding for his ambitious projects.
Overall, Nikola Tesla was a brilliant inventor and engineer whose contributions to the field of electrical engineering and power transmission continue to shape modern technology.
Early Life and Education
Work with Edison and Founding of Tesla Electric Company
Alternating Current (AC) and the "War of Currents"
Wireless Communication and Radio
Other Inventions and Innovations
Personal Life and Legacy
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the development of modern electrical power systems. Here is a timeline of his life and achievements:
1856: Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th in Smiljan, Croatia, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. [8]
1870: Tesla enrolled at Higher Real Gymnasium in Karlovac and graduated the four-year course within three years in 1873. [9]
1875: Tesla attended the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, Austria, on a Military Frontier scholarship. [9]
1882: Tesla moved to Paris and started working for the Continental Edison Company. [1]
1887: Tesla developed the idea for the alternating current (AC) motor and filed his first AC motor patent. [1]
1891: Tesla invented the Tesla coil, a high-frequency transformer that produces high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity. [1]
1893: Tesla patented the Tesla oscillator, a mechanical oscillator that could produce electrical vibrations. [1]
1895: Tesla's New York lab burned, destroying years' worth of notes and equipment. Tesla relocated to Colorado Springs for two years, returning to New York in 1900. [3]
1896: Tesla invented the Tesla turbine, a bladeless centripetal flow turbine that uses the boundary layer effect and adhesion to generate power. [1]
1899: Tesla demonstrated wireless communication and the transmission of electrical power without wires, using his Tesla coil. [1]
1900: Tesla secured backing from J.P. Morgan to build a laboratory and power plant at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, with the goal of transmitting electricity wirelessly. [10]
1901: Tesla began work on his "free energy" project, designing and building a lab with a power plant with funding from a group of investors that included J.P. Morgan. [10]
1915: Tesla filed a patent for a "Tesla's Flying Machine," which he described as a vertical take-off and landing aircraft that used a unique propulsion system. [1]
1921: Tesla filed a patent for a "Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy," which described a method for transmitting electrical energy without wires using the Earth's natural resonance. [[1](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikola