This article is a list of things named after the engineer and inventor

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Tesla coil A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891. It is used to produce high-voltage, low- current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla experimented with a number of differen ...

Singing Tesla coil The singing Tesla coil, sometimes called a zeusaphone, thoramin or musical lightning, is a form of plasma speaker. It is a variety of a solid state Tesla coil that has been modified to produce musical tones by modulating its spark output. The resu ...

Tesla's Egg of Columbus Tesla's Egg of Columbus was a device exhibited in the Westinghouse Electric display at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition to explain the rotating magnetic field that drove the new alternating current induction motors designed by invent ...

Tesla Experimental Station The Tesla Experimental Station was a laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA built in 1899 by inventor Nikola Tesla and for his study of the use of high-voltage, high-frequency electricity in wireless power transmission. Tesla used it f ...

Tesla's oscillator Tesla's electro-mechanical oscillator is a steam-powered electric generator patented by Nikola Tesla in 1893. Later in life Tesla claimed one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, gaining it the popular culture t ...

* Tesla tower *

Tesla turbine Tesla turbine at Nikola Tesla Museum The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a ''bladeless turbine''. The Tesla turbine also known as the ''boundary-layer turbine'', ''c ...

Tesla (unit) The tesla (symbol: T) is the unit of magnetic flux density (also called magnetic B-field strength) in the International System of Units (SI). One tesla is equal to one weber per square metre. The unit was announced during the General Confer ...

, an SI-derived unit for magnetic inductivity *

Tesla valve A Tesla valve, called a valvular conduit by its inventor, is a fixed-geometry passive check valve. It allows a fluid to flow preferentially in one direction, without moving parts. The device is named after Nikola Tesla, who was awarded in 1920 ...

Astronomical bodies

* Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the moon * 2244 Tesla, a minor planet

Other

Awards

* The Nikola Tesla Award *

Nikola Tesla Satellite Award The Nikola Tesla Award is an honorary Satellite Award bestowed by the International Press Academy to recognize the "pioneers of filmmaking technology industry". It was first presented on January 12, 2003, at the 7th Annual Golden Satellite Awards c ...

Biographical works

* My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla * Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla *

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand Tesla most commonly refers to: * Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor * Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc. * Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-d ...

The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla ''The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla'' is a book compiled and edited by Thomas Commerford Martin detailing the work of Nikola Tesla through 1893. The book is a comprehensive compilation of Tesla's early work with many illustra ...

The Secret of Nikola Tesla ''The Secret of Nikola Tesla'' ( sh, Tajna Nikole Tesle), is a 1980 Cinema of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav biographical film which dramatizes events in the life of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla. This somewhat fictionalized portra ...

Enterprises and organizations

* Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in former Czechoslovakia *

Tesla, Inc Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles (electric cars and trucks), battery energy storage from home to grid ...

, an American electric car manufacturer *

Nikola Motor Company Nikola Corporation is an American manufacturer of heavy-duty commercial battery-electric vehicles, fuel-cell electric vehicles, and energy solutions. It presented several vehicle concepts from 2016 to 2020, the first of which was a natural g ...

, an American hybrid truck design company *

Ericsson Nikola Tesla Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d. is the Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson. The company is named after the inventor Nikola Tesla and is the largest specialized provider of modern telecommunications pr ...

, Croatian affiliate of the

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

s equipment manufacturer

Ericsson (lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...

Nikola Tesla Museum The Nikola Tesla Museum ( sr-cyr, Музеј Николе Тесле, Muzej Nikole Tesle) is a science museum located in the central area of Belgrade, Serbia. It is dedicated to honoring and displaying the life and work of Nikola Tesla as well as ...

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 ...

* Societies: :*Tesla Memorial Society (founded 1979), originally Lackawanna, New York, currently Ridgwood, Queens, New York :*International Tesla Society (founded 1984), Colorado Springs * Udruženje za razvoj nauke Nikola Tesla,

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

, Serbia * Zavičajno udruženje Krajišnika Nikola Tesla,

Plandište Plandište (, ; hu, Zichyfalva; german: Zichydorf) is a village and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The village has a population of 3,832, while Plandište municipality has 11,3 ...

, Serbia * Tesla Bank, Zagreb, Croatia

Holidays and events

* National Day of Science in Serbia, July 10 *Nikola Tesla Day in

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...

, 10 July * Day of Nikola Tesla, Association of Teachers in

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

, 4–10 July. * Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July. * Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia

Music

See:

Nikola Tesla in popular culture Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) is portrayed in many forms of popular culture. The Serbian-American engineer has particularly been depicted in science fiction, a genre which is well suited to address his inventions; while often exa ...

Places

Nikola Tesla Memorial Center The Nikola Tesla Memorial Center is a Historic site, cultural-historical site and museum located in Smiljan, Croatia, Smiljan, Croatia, located at the birthplace of Nikola Tesla, one of the world's foremost engineers and inventors. It is dedicated ...

Smiljan Smiljan () is a village in the mountainous region of Western Lika in Croatia. It is located northwest of Gospić, and fifteen kilometers from the Zagreb-Split highway; its population is 418 (2011). Smiljan is the birthplace of inventor and engi ...

Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport ( sr, / ) or Belgrade Airport ( sr, / ) is an international airport serving Belgrade, Serbia. It is the largest and the busiest airport in Serbia, situated west of downtown Belgrade near the suburb of Sur ...

Archive in

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

TPP Nikola Tesla TPP Nikola Tesla, commonly known as TENT, is a power plant complex operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije, located on the right bank of the river Sava, approximately 40 km upstream from Downtown Belgrade, near the city municipality of Obreno ...

, the largest power plant in Serbia * 128 streets in Croatia had been named after Nikola Tesla as of November 2008, making him the eighth most common street name origin in the country. * Tesla Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin USA, the block running from North Rosa Road to North Kenosha Drive on the west side of Madison was long misspelled Telsa Terrace due to a sign-painting error in the 1940s or 1950s. The street's name was corrected to Tesla Terrace in 1987, after a class of Michigan third-graders mounted a letter-writing campaign in support of the change.

Schools

Tesla STEM High School Tesla STEM High School (formerly STEM High School) is a magnet school in Redmond, Washington. It is a designated Choice School in the Lake Washington School District and offers a STEM-based curriculum. , by US News Rankings, Tesla STEM is the nu ...

created in 2012 in Redmond, Washington as a choice school with a focus on STEM subjects. The name was chosen by a student vote.

References

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