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Nikola
Tesla was the first to blaze the trail for the creation of incredible, world transforming devices that we, in the
world of today, take for granted. Tesla invented such things as: radio, the bladeless
turbine, wireless communication, fluorescent lighting, the induction motor, a
telephone repeater, the rotating magnetic field principle, the poly-phase alternating
current system, alternating current power transmission, Tesla Coil transformer, and more
than 700 other patents.
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Nikola Tesla was an
inventor who accumulated 700-plus patents worldwide for his inventions.
Many of Tesla's patents were in the United States, Britain, and Canada,
but many other patents were approved in countries around the globe.
Like Thomas Edison, Tesla's patents were related to, or act as
improvements on, existing technologies. However, and, unlike Edison,
Tesla was more the solitary inventor than the research lab director.
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Many of Tesla's patents were in the United States, Britain, and
Canada, but many other patents were approved in countries around the globe.
Like Thomas Edison, his patents were related to or act as improvements on
existing technologies. Unlike Edison, Tesla was more the solitary inventor than
the research lab director.
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Tesla's
inventions and developments include (but, are not limited to): the induction motor, various
devices that use rotating magnetic fields, the alternating current
poly-phase power distribution system, the fundamental devices of systems of wireless
communication (legal priority for the invention of radio), radio frequency
oscillators, devices for voltage magnification by standing waves, robotics,
logic gates for secure radio frequency communications, devices for x-rays,
devices for ionized gases, devices for high field emission, devices for charged particle beams, voltage multiplication circuitry, devices for high
voltage discharges, devices for lightning protection, the bladeless turbine,
and VTOL (Vertical Takeoff Or Landing) aircraft.
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| Life® magazine, in a special double-issue, listed
Nikola Tesla in the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years".
Tesla occupied the 57th
position. He was also listed as one of Discovery Channel's 'Greatest
Americans' (Nikola Tesla was Voted #97 out of the Top 100 Greatest Americans
for 2005). |
