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Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
Croatian physicist and electrical engineer who invented a number of important electrical devices, including the AC motor and generator. Tesla was born in Croatia and moved to th...
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Table 2 Estimates of Selected Energy-Related Federal Tax Expenditures, FY 1999–2003 SOURCE: Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, 1999.
Tesla, Nikola (1856–1943)
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The Croatian-American inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) invented the induction motor and the transformer known as the Tesla coil and discovered the rotating magnetic field prin...
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The first person to prove and perfect the efficient use of alternating-current electricity, Nikola Tesla saw his polyphase system become the standard for power transmission throughout the world. He al...
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Perhaps more than any other individual, Nikola Tesla was responsible for developing the AC (alternating current) system of power supply that provides the world with electricity. A prolific inventor of...
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In the following essay, Patterson presents Tesla as an independent and creative thinker who challenged the prevailing orthodoxy, namely that of Edison and others who adhered to the idea of direct, as ...
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In the following excerpt, O'Neill examines several aspects of Tesla's personality: his social behavior and habits, his relationship with employees and the opposite sex, and his love for ...
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In the following essay, Dunlap identifies Tesla as a pioneer of the wireless communication methods that made possible both radio and television.
Nikola Tesla, through his wide range of electrical expe...
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In the following essay, Swezey provides an overview of Tesla's life, with an emphasis on his key inventions, and offers a detailed but non-technical discussion of those scientific discoveries.
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In the following excerpt, Neidle describes conditions affecting many southern Slavs' migration to America, then turns to a specific examination of Tesla as an immigrant whose life was a mixture...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Cheney
SOURCE; "The Legacy," in Tesla: Man Out of Time, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981, pp. 281-290.
In the following excerpt, Cheney discusses continuing scientifi...
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In the following essay, Jones provides an overview of Tesla's career, with an emphasis on his ideas regarding "Free Energy", in an effort to encourage further study and experiment...
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In the following excerpt, Seifer recounts efforts by the United States government, acting on unconfirmed reports that Tesla had developed a "death ray", to seize and suppress allegedly s...
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Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia at midnight between July 9th and 10th 1856. He was intelligent since his early childhood. He soon became interested in engineering and he studied it at the...
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