“But it is not an experiment ... I have built, demonstrated and used it. Only a little time will pass before I can give it to the world.”
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
science · Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943) · also Nikola Tesla, Nicola Tesla, Tesla
Born 10 July 1856 · Died 7 January 1943 · Q9036
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“s claim as the first to achieve radio transmission, just that since Marconi”
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“intelligible signals or perhaps even power to any distance without the use of wires”
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“twenty-four different types of standard machines”
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“s demonstrations of electricity. The”
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“s earlier works while recovering from his illness. Youth The next year, Tesla evaded conscription into the Austro-Hungarian Army in Smiljan by running away to Tomingaj, a village in the southeast of Lika, near Gračac. There he explored the mountains wearing hunter”
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Reported claimRated False. Tesla’s plans were for wireless electricity transmission but he was unable to make it commercially viable and the tower was demolished to pay his debts. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “The US government demolished Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower to prevent him giving free energy to the world.” False. Tesla’s plans were for wireless electricity transmission but he was unable to make it commercially viable and the tower was demolished to pay his debts..
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News Mobile rated the claim “Rare image of Nikola Tesla with a woman” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Image of Nikola Tesla at a beach with a woman” FALSE.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In 1926, scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla described a future "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth" in a way that allows humans "to communicate with one another instantly irrespective of distance" with the clarity of a face-to-face meeting using a device that "will fit in our ves…” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Nikola Tesla working as a swim instructor on a New York beach near the end of the 19th century.” Miscaptioned.
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Time named Tesla one of the 100 most significant figures of all time
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Described a device using a method of charging slugs of tungsten or mercury to millions of volts and directing them in streams (through electrostatic repulsion) through an array open-ended gas jet seal vacuum tubes
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From a series of 1919 magazine articles by Tesla which were republished in 1977; and The Tesla Papers
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Kosanović's secretary Charlotte Muzar transported Tesla's ashes from the United States to Belgrade
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That Tesla's general speculation that a very strong high-frequency signal would be needed was correct
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Following pressure from Sava Kosanović, Tesla's entire estate was shipped to Belgrade in 80 trunks marked "N
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Died 1943-01-07.
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“Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.”
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“The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.”
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At his event in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel New Yorker, Tesla received the Order of the White Lion from the Czechoslovak ambassador and a medal from the Yugoslav ambassador
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At his 79th birthday party, Tesla covered many topics
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“An Inventor's Seasoned Ideas", The New York Times (8 April 1934)”
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At age 77, Tesla told reporters at the event that, after 35 years of work, he was on the verge of producing proof of a new form of energy
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Tesla contributed the only negative opinion to The New York Times
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A young journalist whom Tesla befriended, Kenneth M
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Tesla commented on the ills of the social subservience of women and the struggle of women for gender equality
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And followed a pattern from then on of moving to a different hotel every few years and leaving behind unpaid bills
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Tesla attempted to sue the Marconi Company for infringement of his wireless tuning patents
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“John Stone Stone on Nikola Tesla's Priority in Radio and Continuous-Wave Radiofrequency Apparatus”
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Crafted "a plan to make dull students bright by saturating them unconsciously with electricity", wiring the walls of a schoolroom and, "saturating [the schoolroom] with infinitesimal electric waves vibrating at high f
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Tesla demonstrated a 200 horsepower (150 kilowatts) 16,000 rpm bladeless turbine
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Tesla opened offices at 165 Broadway in Manhattan, trying to raise further funds by developing and marketing his patents
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And the article "Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency", published in his book Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
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Tesla demonstrated a boat that used a coherer-based radio control—which he dubbed "telautomaton"—to the public during an electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden
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But his 1900 patent submission covering improvements to radio transmission had been rejected several times on the grounds that it infringed on other existing patents, including two 1897 Tesla wireless power tuning patent
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And invented a way to produce direct current by induction, and made many claims about his mechanical oscillator
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Tesla met Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda
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Edward Dean Adams, impressed with what he saw when he toured Tesla's lab, agreed to help found the Nikola Tesla Company, set up to fund, develop, and market a variety of previous Tesla patents and inventions as well as n
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Tesla began investigating what he referred to as radiant energy of "invisible" kinds after he had noticed damaged film in his laboratory in previous experiments (later identified as "Roentgen rays" or "X-rays")
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“I am in too much grief to talk. What can I say?”
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Made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices
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Edward Dean Adams, who headed the Niagara Falls Cataract Construction Company, sought Tesla's opinion on what system would be best to transmit power generated at the falls
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Tesla moved out of the Liberty Street shop Peck and Brown had rented and for the next dozen years worked out of a series of workshop/laboratory spaces in Manhattan
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Came at the time of extreme competition between electric companies
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Earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system, which Westinghouse marketed
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Tesla developed an induction motor that ran on alternating current (AC), a power system format that was rapidly expanding in Europe and the United States because of its advantages in long-distance, high-voltage transmiss
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Decided that the manufacturing side of the business was too competitive and opted to simply run an electric utility
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And presented in a paper in March 1888 by Italian physicist Galileo Ferraris, but decided that Tesla's patent would probably control the market
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Edison manager Charles Batchelor, who had been overseeing the Paris installation, was brought back to the United States to manage the Edison Machine Works, a manufacturing division situated in New York City, and asked th
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Migrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen
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Tivadar Puskás got Tesla another job in Paris with the Continental Edison Company
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To work under Tivadar Puskás at a telegraph company, the Budapest Telephone Exchange
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Tesla moved to Karlovac to attend high school at the Higher Real Gymnasium where the classes were held in German
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The Tesla family moved to the nearby town of Gospić, where Tesla's father worked as parish priest
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Tesla attended primary school in Smiljan where he studied German, arithmetic, and religion
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Born 1856-07-10.
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