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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.
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science · Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943) · inventor · electrical engineer · physicist · electrician · mechanical engineer · futurist · also Nikola Tesla, Nicola Tesla, Tesla
Born 10 July 1856 · Died 7 January 1943 · Q9036
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2026· 11 entries
The San Francisco Standard: China is burying the U.S. car industry. Tesla and Waymo are the last line of defense
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“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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“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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The Guardian: Tesla’s profits slide despite growing revenue as it pivots to robotics and AI
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The Guardian: Elon Musk loses trillionaire status as SpaceX and Tesla stock drops
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2025· 1 entry
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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2022· 2 entries
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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2021· 2 entries
Snopes 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.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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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Tesla review – portrait of an inventor out of step with his time
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2018· 2 entries
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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Snopes.com 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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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Serbian church fights to take Nikola Tesla's ashes from museum
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Nikola Tesla's ashes spark row between Serbian scientists and Orthodox church
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2013· 2 entries
The Guardian: Serbian president unveils Nikola Tesla monument in New York
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Time named Tesla one of the 100 most significant figures of all time
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2012· 2 entries
The Guardian: Geek mythology and Nikola Tesla | Rebekah Higgitt
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The Guardian: Nikola Tesla museum campaign earns $500,000 online in two days
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2009· 1 entry
The Guardian: Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla: thanks for the electricity
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2003· 1 entry
The Guardian: Nikola Tesla and universal energy
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1984· 1 entry
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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1983· 1 entry
From a series of 1919 magazine articles by Tesla which were republished in 1977; and The Tesla Papers
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1975).
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1957· 1 entry
Kosanović's secretary Charlotte Muzar transported Tesla's ashes from the United States to Belgrade
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1953· 1 entry
That Tesla's general speculation that a very strong high-frequency signal would be needed was correct
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1952· 1 entry
Following pressure from Sava Kosanović, Tesla's entire estate was shipped to Belgrade in 80 trunks marked "N
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1943· 11 entries
Died 1943-01-07.
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“Odobravam rusku revoluciju jer je na šestini zemljine površine proglasila princip poštenja. P red Sovjetskim Savezom nalaze se neverovatna iskušenja ali je država spremna da ih prevaziđe. Rusima se posrećilo – oni imaju socijalizam i Staljina. Srećan narod sa mudrim vođom.”
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“I nostri pregi e i nostri difetti sono inscindibili, proprio come la forza e la materia. Quando si separano, l'uomo non è più. (da Sull'Incremento dell'Energia Umana: con un riferimento particolare all'energia solare, p. 27)”
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“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
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“This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization.”
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“Woman's determined competition with man in the business world is breaking down some of the best traditions”
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“Perhaps the male in human society is useless. I am frank to admit that I don't know. If women are beginning to feel this way about it--and there is striking evidence at hand that they do--then we are entering upon the cruelest period of the world's history.”
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“The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me.”
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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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“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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“Approvo la rivoluzione russa perché ha proclamato il principio dell'onestà su un sesto della superficie terrestre. L'Unione Sovietica sta affrontando tentazioni incredibili, ma lo Stato è pronto a superarle. I russi sono fortunati: hanno il socialismo e Stalin. Persone felici con un leader saggio.”
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1937).
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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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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion (1936).
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1935· 1 entry
At his 79th birthday party, Tesla covered many topics
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1934· 2 entries
Awarded John Scott Award (1934).
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“An Inventor's Seasoned Ideas", The New York Times (8 April 1934)”
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1933· 1 entry
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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1931· 2 entries
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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1926· 1 entry
Tesla commented on the ills of the social subservience of women and the struggle of women for gender equality
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1924· 1 entry
“Pubblicato su Galveston Daily, 10 agosto 1924; Riportato online in An Engineer's Aspect”
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1922· 1 entry
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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1916· 1 entry
Won Edison Medal (1916).
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1915· 2 entries
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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1912· 1 entry
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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1906· 2 entries
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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1905· 1 entry
“Pubblicato su Electrical World & Engineer, 7 gennaio 1905, pp. 21-24; riportato in TeslaUniverse.com.”
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1900· 1 entry
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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1898· 1 entry
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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1897· 1 entry
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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1896· 4 entries
“Mi chiamarono pazzo nel 1896 quando annunciai la scoperta di raggi cosmici. Ripetutamente si presero gioco di me quando avevo scoperto qualcosa di nuovo e poi, anni dopo, videro che avevo ragione.”
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Tesla met Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda
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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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“They called me crazy in 1896 when I announced the discovery of cosmic rays. Again and again they jeered when I discovered something new and then years later saw that I was right.”
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1895· 1 entry
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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1894· 2 entries
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1894).
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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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1893· 3 entries
Made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices
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“I am in too much grief to talk. What can I say?”
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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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1889· 1 entry
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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1888· 2 entries
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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1887· 1 entry
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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1886· 1 entry
Decided that the manufacturing side of the business was too competitive and opted to simply run an electric utility
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1885· 1 entry
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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1884· 2 entries
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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1882· 1 entry
Tivadar Puskás got Tesla another job in Paris with the Continental Edison Company
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1881· 1 entry
To work under Tivadar Puskás at a telegraph company, the Budapest Telephone Exchange
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1878· 1 entry
Studied at Graz University of Technology (1875–1878).
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1873· 1 entry
Studied at Karlovac Gymnasium (1870–1873).
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1870· 1 entry
Tesla moved to Karlovac to attend high school at the Higher Real Gymnasium where the classes were held in German
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1862· 1 entry
The Tesla family moved to the nearby town of Gospić, where Tesla's father worked as parish priest
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1861· 1 entry
Tesla attended primary school in Smiljan where he studied German, arithmetic, and religion
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1856· 1 entry
Born 1856-07-10.
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