INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT NIKOLA TESLA — TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frequently asked questions and interesting facts about Nikola Tesla.  Follow these links to dedicated question and answer pages.  Look for additional links pointing to other areas in this website.

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BIOGRAPHY
AC POWER AND LIGHTING
TESLA COILS
WIRELESS TRANSMISSION
TELEFORCE & TELEGEODYNAMICS
ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM AND GRAVITY
TURBOMACHINERY 

BIOGRAPHY

• Languages Spoken 

• Patents Obtained 

• Most Important Books 

• Tesla and Edison 

• New Jersey 

• Tesla's Best Friend Tesla's Cat 

• Mysterious Pet Fireball 

• Tesla's Mind 

• Tesla's IQ? 

• Nationality 

• Upon Tesla's Death 

The Man:

• Nikola Tesla — A Man of Comprehensive Solutions

The Legacy:

• A Museum at Wardenclyffe: The Creation of a Monument to Nikola Tesla 

• New Life for an Historic Landmark 

• Tesla Wardenclyffe Project Update 

• Wardenclyffe Property Update 

The Myth:

• A Blast from the Past 

• Tunguska — A Tesla Connection? 

• The Management of Unwanted Nuclear Material 

• MIT Witricity — Not So Original After All 

AC POWER AND LIGHTING

• Inspiration for the Rotating Magnetic Field Concept 

• Niagara Falls Frequency 

• The Fluorescent Light 

See also

• Nikola Tesla on Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Electrical Power Generation  

• The Snoqualmie Falls Power Plant — An 1898 Milestone in Electric Power Generation 

• Niagara Falls 1996 Centenial 

• 26 Mile Power Transmission Account 

• Tesla's "Egg of Columbus" 

TESLA COILS

• Practical Applications 

• Power Supply Transformers 

• High-Voltage Demonstrations 

• Wire Gauge Number 

• Bifilar-Wound Coils 

• Using Tesla Coils for Wireless Transmission 

• Scaling Down Tesla's Wireless System for Experimentation 

WIRELESS TRANSMISSION

• The Purpose of the Wardenclyffe Tower 

• Wireless Energy Transmission, also the Rotating Coherer 

• Wardenclyffe Plant Operating Principles 

• Wardenclyffe Apparatus Operating Principles 

• The Wardenclyffe Oscillator and Tuning 

• Antenna Loading Coil or Helical Resonator? 

• About World Wireless System Efficiency 

• Elevated Terminals and Their Function  

• A Comparison of Tesla and Marconi Low Frequency Wireless Systems 

• A 15-Mile High Elevated Terminal?

• Electrical Power Through the Earth 

• Broadcast of Electrical Power 

• Tesla's Canadian Demonstration of the Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy 

• Tesla's Radio Controlled Boat 

• Tesla's Invention of the Electronic Logic Gate 

• Telautomaton Voice Recognition System? 

• Tesla and the Loudspeaker 

• The Rotating Brush Detector and Static Eliminator 

• Tesla's Experiments With Electric Cars 

• The 1931 Electric Pierce Arrow Account 

• Tesla's Invention of Radio 

• Tesla's Invention of the Radio Transmitter 

• Marconi and the 1901 Trans-Atlantic "S" 

• The Tunguska Explosion 

• Wardenclyffe Centennial 

See also

• An Introduction to Tesla's Ground-Air System for Wireless Telecommunications 

• Wireless Remote Control and the Electronic Computer Logic Gate 

• A Brief History of Precision Guided Weapons 

• Comparing the Hertz-Wave and Tesla Wireless Systems 

• Nikola Tesla — The True Father of Radio 

• Tesla Coils & The World System — Nikola Tesla's Engineering Legacy 

• The Wireless Transmission of Electrical Energy 

• Tesla's Colorado Springs Lightning Observations 

• Regeneration Revisited 

• Rediscovering the Zenneck Surface Wave 

TELEFORCE & TELEGEODYNAMICS

• The "Death Ray" 

• Remotely Boil Oil 

• Earthquake Machine 

ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM AND GRAVITY

• Unknown Energy Source 

• Weather Control 

• Philadelphia Experiment & Outer Space Radio 

• The 'Teslar' Watch 

TURBOMACHINERY

• The Tesla Bladeless Turbine 

• Tesla Turbomachinery Manufacturers 

• Tesla Turbine Efficiency & Why haven't these devices been more utilized? 

• Further Information

See also

• Nikola Tesla's Disk Turbine 

• A New Advance in Tesla Turbine Theory 

• A Boundary Layer Breakthrough 

• Is There a Turbine In Your Future?