Tesla most commonly refers to:
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Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
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Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.
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Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density
Tesla may also refer to:
Companies and organizations
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Tesla (Czechoslovak company), a former state-owned conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia
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Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company was an electric lighting company in Rahway, New Jersey that operated from December 1884 through 1886.
History
Based at the site where 1571-1579 Irving Street now stands, on Irving Street between Co ...
, a former company in Rahway, New Jersey, US
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Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe
The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (also known as TSCW) is a nonprofit organization established to develop a regional science and technology center, museum and makerspace at the site of Nikola Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory on Lon ...
, a proposed science museum in New York, US
Media and entertainment
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Tesla (band), an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California
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Tesla – Lightning in His Hand
''Tesla – Lightning in His Hand'' is a large-scale opera about Serbian American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), composed by Constantine Koukias, a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, wher ...
'', a 2003 opera by Constantine Koukias
* "Tesla", a song on the 2013 album ''
Nanobots
Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). More specifically, nanorobotics (as opposed to mi ...
'' by They Might Be Giants
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''Tesla'' (2016 film), a 2016 film by David Grubin
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''Tesla'' (2020 film), a 2020 film by Michael Almereyda
Places
* Tesla, a former coal mining town in
Corral Hollow, California, US
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Tesla, West Virginia, US
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Tesla Fault
The Tesla Fault can be found in the northeastern Diablo Range, California. This fault is only semi-active.
Geology
This fault has been demonstrated to have a dextral offset of and is closely associated with the Greenville Fault.
Mocho Subbas ...
, a geological formation in the Diablo Range, California, US
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Tesla River, Romania
Space
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2244 Tesla
2244 Tesla, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 October 1952, by Serbian astronomer Milorad Protić at the Belgrade Ob ...
, an asteroid discovered in 1952
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Tesla (crater), a lunar crater
Science and technology
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Tesla (microarchitecture), a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia
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Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, a proposed particle collider, now part of the International Linear Collider project
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Tesla valve, a fixed-geometry passive check valve
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Nvidia Tesla, a brand of GPGPU cards with the Tesla microarchitecture
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Tesla coil, a type of resonant transformer circuit
See also
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List of things named after Nikola Tesla
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List of Nikola Tesla patents
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Nikola Tesla (disambiguation)
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Tesler, a surname
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TSLAQ, a loose collective critical of Tesla, Inc.
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