Nikola Tesla

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Alternant motor, polyphase motor and the basic electric motor.

His mother was Duka Mandic, who invented farm tools.

Nikola as a child demonstrated symptoms of early genius mind formation and he did once got sick with Cholera and almost died. As a matter of fact, when he came delirious with high temperature his head was filled with ideas on electricity and such.

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"Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla's work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills would be dead and idle. Yes, so far reaching is his work that it has become the warp and woof of industry . His name marks an epoch in the advance of electrical science. From that work has sprung a revolution"

Tesla pointed out the inefficiency of Edison's direct current electrical powerhouses that have been build up and down the Atlantic seaboard. The secret, he felt, lay in the use of alternating current, because to him all energies were cyclic. Tesla introduced his motors and electrical systems in a classic paper, "A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers" which he delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1888. One of the most impressed was the industrialist and inventor George Westinghouse. One day he visited Tesla's laboratory aTesla Statuend was amazed at what he saw. Tesla had constructed a model polyphase system consisting of an alternating current dynamo, step-up and step-down transformers and A.C. motor at the other end. The perfect partnership between Tesla and Westinghouse for the nationwide use of electricity in America had begun. In 1882 Tesla conceives of AC induction motor and in 1883 Tesla constructs the first polyphase AC motor.

He was not.

The history surrounding the life of Nikola Tesla, doesn't tell us about the life of the siblings and family of the scientist but no more with the relation of Tesla.

He did not show interest in a field in particular even when he was a A student.

Polyphase Alternating Current.................1883

Earthquake Machine ...............................1887

Radio Technology.....................................1891

Robotics...................................................1893

X-ray Technology .....................................1894

Broadcast Power ......................................1900

Electromagnetic Pulse..............................1901

Radar Technology ....................................1915

Particle Beam Weaponry ..........................1917

Death Ray................................................1943

Nikola's parents were his father Rev. Milutin Tesla his mother was Djuka Mandic Tesla. His brother was His siblings were Dane Tesla, Milka Tesla, Marica Tesla and Angelina Tesla.

Mark Twain was great friend to him.

Honoring the legacy of American physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla

By Sebastian White, Ph.D.

Published November 07, 2012

FoxNews.com

Earlier this month the purchase of a long-neglected laboratory of the Croatian-born (son of a Serbian Orthodox minister) American physicist/engineer, Nikola Tesla, received funding. The source was a remarkable web-based grassroots campaign that raised $1.37M within a week.

The average contribution was a mere $47 and gifts came from every part of the US and a total of 100 countries worldwide.

The web-site was run by a comic book writer, Gary Inman, who created The Oatmeal and lives in Seattle, Washington- a long way from the Wardenclyffe lab in Shoreham, Long Island, NY.

In some ways this campaign is reminiscent of the grassroots funding campaign for the election of Barack Obama, which contributed to his election in 2008. On the other hand, unlike President Obama, who could speak eloquently for what he represents, Tesla is no longer with us and there are, no doubt, many different opinions among the donors to the Wardenclyffe purchase about what Tesla represents.

On this 70th anniversary of Tesla's death at the New Yorker Hotel at age 86, capturing what Tesla represents and the best use of his former laboratory seems like a critical next step, now that a 16 year effort to purchase the property has likely concluded.

What should Nikola Tesla represent to a small community on Long Island's north shore, or to any of us for that matter?

Shoreham is perhaps best known to New Yorkers as the site of the ill-fated Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. Ironically, it is probably his role as one of the first significant thinkers about sustainable energy production and distribution. As a physicist and engineer Tesla had the wherewithal, because of his extraordinary inventiveness (he was assigned around 300 patents) and his personal connections to the financiers and artists of the day to affect real change.

The years when Wardenclyffe was built were probably the most significant for Tesla and for a spirit of optimism in America.

At the turn of the last century many things were happening that shaped our world. The Niagara Falls power plant seemed to be the beginning of an era of limitless clean power. It was financed largely by Tesla's friend, John Jacob Astor IV and designed by his friend Stanford White. The internal combustion engine was beginning to look like a solution to the cleanup problem that came from having horse drawn vehicles all over New York.

Wireless communication was developing rapidly and it was immediately clear that it would transform not only communication but also maritime safety. X-rays captured everyone's imagination. Electric power distribution seemed like a clean and safer alternative to natural gas lines and coal delivery for a busy city like New York.

Why would clean sustainable energy seem like such an attractive thing in those early days when the automobile age was only just starting and our energy usage was so much lower than it is today?

At the turn of the century power generation was more concentrated in the cities and less effort was made to limit the more visible émissions. Tesla's friend, Mark Twain, spent some time in Manchester, England, which was probably ground zero for industrial pollution at the time. His American friends asked why he would want to spend time there and he answered "because then the eventual transition to death would seem less abrupt".

Out of control pollution can be a good motivator for looking at sustainable energy options. This explains, in part, the fact that China is out ahead of the curve on solar cell production.

During that time it is inevitable that Tesla would have been involved in many things. In 1895 Roentgen published the first X-ray image, showing the skeleton of his wife's hand and wedding ring. Roentgen never patented this invention, feeling that it should be freely available for medical uses.

Tesla's contemporary, Michael Pupin (born in Serbia about the same time) came up with an improvement of the X-ray images. He had been asked to see if this new technology could be used in a difficult surgery of a NY lawyer after a hunting accident. The first X-ray in North America was taken by Tesla of his friend, Mark Twain.

There were also fights over priority among all of these people- i.e. involving Tesla, Pupin, Edison, Marconi, etc. since there was money to be made. Tesla and George Westinghouse eventually won the battle over hard-wired power distribution and Tesla's patents in radio were eventually upheld by a Supreme Court decision in 1943.

But the more interesting side is the way all of these people interacted outside of the courtroom. In those days it was just as cool to hang around Tesla's lab as it would be today to visit an artist's studio. There was an endless procession of artists, financiers and writers to Tesla's lab as one can read in the recent books on Tesla by Seifer and Krause, for example. Mark Twain had a sideline as an inventor so he had a professional interest. John Jacob Astor wrote a science fiction book based on Tesla's ideas about sustainable energy- so he also had a professional interest.

As with later significant technologies (i.e. nuclear power and the transistor) people shared a great optimism about the enabling impact of the new technologies of Tesla's day.

Wireless communication is obviously an area where the impact is today enormous.

There are many parts of the world where, as on post Hurricane Sandy Long Island, there is limited functioning electrical distribution and only wireless communication. In these areas, however, there has been a lasting impact on boosting the economy. For some time it has been said that there are more smartphones in Asia than there are toilet seats. Smartphones allow farmers in remote areas to make informed decisions about when to bring products to market, etc. This is certainly a great success story.

In thinking about how our world can develop the enabling technologies that are critical to our future it is worth remembering the origins of the smartphone revolution. Where would we be today if it hadn't been for Heinrich Hertz, Nikola Tesla and Ernest Rutherford (see below) among others? Less discussed is the fact that this revolution depended critically on the work of the mathematician, Alan Turing-whose centennial is celebrated this year, Vannevar Bush and Claude Shannon since all of this depends on switching networks, computation and information theory in order for it to work.

Before turning his attention to atomic physics, Ernest Rutherford- sometimes called the father of the atom- spent a lot of his time working on radio and briefly held the world record for the farthest radio transmission.

By 1927 he'd gotten the Nobel Prize, been knighted and was the President of the Royal Society in London. That year he used the opportunity of an annual president's address to The Society to point out that because of work in the US, largely due to Tesla, on high voltage AC power distribution there was an opportunity to revolutionize atomic physics. There were already components to generate higher energy beams of subatomic particles for study of the atom than were available from the beams then being used from radioactive decay of materials like Thorium. He then suggested that his colleagues, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton work on this.

This was the beginning of the age of particle accelerators, which culminated last July with the discovery of a new fundamental particle at CERN in Geneva. A particle accelerator is a kind of wireless ENERGY transmission. It generates very high electric currents in a vacuum. If the beam that is stored in CERN's accelerator were steered up from the underground tunnel, where it circulates, it could transmit an electric current in a pencil-thin beam that carries the energy of a high-speed locomotive (hundreds of MegaJoules).

Unfortunately this wireless form of energy transmission only got public attention when Edward Teller got Ronald Reagan interested in it's potential uses for national defense. It would have been great if Ronald Reagan had also been given inspiration to form a characteristically optimistic vision about the peaceful uses of these technologies. (People may remember, though, that Reagan was a fan of the very ambitious accelerator project (SSC), later sited in Texas and his instructions to the US Department of Energy in 1987 were to "throw deep").

Though there has been work on similar wireless energy transmission- for example, to beam down energy from orbiting solar collecting satellites- these ideas are still not practical (and may never be). They also have nothing to do with what Tesla was trying to do at Wardenclyffe.

Tesla's vision for Wardenclyffe had more to do with the current work-based at MIT- by the Croatian born physicist Marin Soljacic on wireless energy transfer (and a company called "Witricity"). Today's technologies focus on more modest amounts of power transmission- typically enough to recharge your cell phone while it is lying around the house.

Tesla was soon aware that radio signals can propagate beyond the line of sight and had a vision of the earth and (what we now call) the ionosphere forming a giant resonant cavity that could store up transmitted radio frequency energy without too much dissipation. This wasn't just speculation since he actually observed such resonant behavior working in his Colorado Springs lab in 1899. He even made an initial mathematical calculation for the frequency of 8 Hertz, which is in the extreme low frequency band (ELF). The full theory of what later came to be known as the Schumann resonances wasn't worked out until 1952.

There are practical problems with harnessing energy at these low frequencies but Tesla's vision that there is a huge amount of energy to be captured, even in the radio spectrum, may well have benefits for low quantities of wireless power in remote parts of the world. Schumann resonances are naturally excited by lightning at remote places around the world but Tesla went one step farther and wanted to find techniques to deliver power remotely.

Sustainable power generation, distribution and storage must be a national priority if we are to avoid a world fighting for ever-shrinking resources. The topic has certainly not had enough attention in the current political debates from either major party. Today we need the optimistic vision about dealing with this most critical problem that a Kennedy or a Reagan were skillful in promoting.

The Tesla Lab at Wardenclyffe should become a monument to that vision- possibly as a kind of "hands on museum" commemorating the way he brought people from all walks of life into the excitement of science and technology.

Sebastian White is a physicist participating in the LHC experiments at CERN and is currently living in Geneva, Switzerland. He has done much of his research at CERN, starting with his thesis experiment as a Ph.D. student of Leon Lederman (who first came up with the name "The God Particle"). For part of the year he is at The Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University. He is a great-grandson of Stanford White.

He was until his brother Dan, died in a horse accident.

He was born to a Serbian family in Smiljan near Gospić, Lika, (the Military Frontier of Austria-Hungary, now in Croatia).

The fact is that Tesla was indeed recognized as a genius. He was, without doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming, devices that often were virtually without theoretical precedent.

His name was Dan who died in a horse accident when Nikola was a young boy.

He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and his ambition was to make a hydra plant in the Niagara.

Feeding pigeons at the park.

Nikola Tesla's Youngest Descendant, Serbian Refugee

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Jun 25th, 2009 | By De-Construct.net | In Croatia, Featured Articles, Weekend

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Danijela Tesla, great inventor's youngest descendant, was only 5-years-old when she was forced to flee Croatia, along with all the Serbs from Krajina

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Her name is Danijela Tesla, she is 18-years-old and lives in Smederevo, Serbian town near Belgrade. She is the youngest descendant of the "man who invented 20th century", Serbian-born American immigrant Nikola Tesla.

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Ever since the world's greatest inventor - also regarded as "the greatest genius" that ever lived - closed his eyes in New York hotel on 7 January 1943, Tesla's name and revolutionary inventions have been the subject of vicious contention between the governments, state officials and institutions, nations and corporations.

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Recently, Walt Disney studio which wants to create a Tesla character for one sequence of their new animated film, had to ask Belgrade Nikola Tesla Museum - the only legal copyright owner of Tesla's name and work - for permission. On the other hand, Croat designer Dragica Mihajlovic believes it is her God-given right to claim personal ownership of "all of Tesla's intellectual-property rights", an issue Tesla Museum intends to clear up.

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Son of Serbian Orthodox priest Fr. Milutin Tesla and Đuka Mandić (herself a daughter of Serbian Orthodox priest, Fr. Nikola Mandić), Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in Serbian Krajina (also known as Military Frontier - Vojna Krajina) in Austro-Hungary, today's Croatia, which was populated with Serbian soldiers and their families by the Hapsburg Monarchy in 16th century, along the border with Ottoman Empire, as the last line of Western defense against the Turks.

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Tesla, who was proud of his Serbian nationality and Orthodox heritage, said his "most exiting thought" in the struggle to achieve his ideals "on behalf of the whole of humanity," was the fact "that it is a deed of a Serb".

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It is not surprising that Croats, who generally feel no shame over misappropriating the great inventor's name and ethnic roots, see no contradiction in claiming Nikola Tesla as their own on the one hand and, on the other, committing monstrous genocides twice in 20th century against Tesla's kith and kin - the Serbian population in Krajina.

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The world can only thank divine providence Nikola Tesla was in United States and not in Serbian Krajina during WWII, at the time Croatia was a fascist state ruled by demented Ustasha butchers, when all of Krajina - including village Smiljan, Tesla's birthplace - was drowned in Serbian blood, and 750,000 Serbs in Croatia were mutilated and slaughtered in Jasenovac, a complex of grisly Croat death camps.

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Tesla's descendants are a living proof of Croat hypocrisy and shamelessness, among them Danijela, who was only 5-years-old when Croat army under Franjo Tudjman launched another pogrom on Krajina Serbs, codenamed operation "Storm" (Oluja), in 1995. Without a father who passed away two years before, Danijela was forced to flee her village Raduč, where all the Teslas come from, with her mother Milka and more than 250,000 other Krajina Serbs. Their family house was dynamited and torched by the raging Croat army, but Danijela Tesla managed to reach Serbia.

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"My father Dane is Nikola Tesla's grand-grandchild - Nikola Tesla's first cousin is the grand-grandfather of my father," Danijela explains quietly, and only if asked.

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She carries her name and heritage silently and unassumingly, along with the war scars, refugee status and life-long struggle for survival. Her mother works in Italy as a construction worker, to support herself and pay for her daughter's education.

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"She works at men's jobs, painting, laying ceramic tiles, cementing… She was never doing that before, but she had to learn…," Danijela said.

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Although a talented artist, Danijela has decided to study economy since, as she puts it, "the life has taught me I can't live off the love for art".

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She says she looks like her father, but the physical resemblance to her glorious ancestor is uncanny - the same gentle facial contours, same dreamy, introspective gaze, and refined, slender figure.

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"My dad wrote two books. Tesla about Tesla was published in 1968, and Josip Broz Tito was among those who attended the promotion in Smiljan [in Serbian Krajina]. His second book, From Raduč to New York, was written in 1980," Danijela said.

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"I was in the seventh grade when I wrote an essay about Nikola Tesla where, in addition to all the data, I also included the family tree. It shows that my father Dane was Nikola's grand-grandchild or, rather, that Nikola's first cousin was my father's grand-grandfather. My friends never realized my last name was connected to Nikola Tesla, and I never boasted about my heritage. I would only tell about it if someone asked," Danijela told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.

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Although the youngest, Danijela is not the last of Teslas. Her father had three brothers, all of them Tesla's descendants from Raduč in Serbian Krajina and all presently living in Serbia - two in Belgrade and one in Leskovac.

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After the Yugoslav civil war has ended, Milka Tesla submitted a request to Croat authorities for rebuilding of their destroyed family house in Raduč. When Milka and Danijela went to Zagreb to collect the necessary documents, Tesla's kin were subjected to hostility and maltreatment, and police interrogation "like we were some criminals". Even the Helsinki Board for Human Rights was forced to intervene in their defense - another nasty episode that speaks volumes about the Croat rights to Tesla's name and legacy.

Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil around 1891. The Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit that produces high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity.

His contributions where for the whole world. Tesla changed the way the whole world lives. He invented the alternate current system for producing electrify to the whole world. All wireless units have the base in the Tesla coil. Even bulbs we use today were invented by him. The first things we have to know about bulbs lights is that Edison did not invent those, but only improve them by filling them with copper linings of metals. The second thing is that the Edison patent is outlawed in many countries including the United States and the patent used is the Tesla patent 455,069, dated June 30, 1891. In the Tesla bulbs, the union was better and never had a case of one catching fire like the Edison bulbs. He also made them to allow them to turn on wirelessly. Tesla hypothesized that he could transmit unlimited amounts of power to any place on earth with virtually no loss. The first 'Magnifier' was assembled in New York City between 1895 to 1898. In 1899 a larger magnifier was constructed in Colorado Springs, Colorado with the patent "System of Electric Lighting," U.S. Patent 454,622, 23 June 1891. Tesla spent his remaining funds on his other inventions and culminated his efforts in a major breakthrough in 1899 at Colorado Springs by transmitting 100 million volts of high-frequency electric power wirelessly over a distance of 26 miles at which he lit up a bank of 200 light bulbs and ran one electric motor! With this souped up version of his Tesla coil, Tesla claimed that only 5% of the transmitted energy was lost in the process.

There is no real history behind her. Most of the facts are unknown. Her married name was Milka Glumi�i� and she was married to an Serbian Orthodox priest. she was found in US city directories in 1921 to 1889. The only information is this..

Birthdate:

Death: (Date and location unknown)

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Milutin Tesla and Georgina �uka Tesla

Wife of Vukašin Glumi�i�

Mother of Gina Lali�

Sister of Danilo Tesla; Angelina Trbojevi�; Nikola Tesla; Marica Kosanovi� and Gina Lali�

Nikola Tesla invented alternating current (AC) electricity to address the limitations of direct current (DC) systems, which could not be efficiently transmitted long distances. AC allowed for the development of a more practical and efficient electrical distribution system, transforming the way electricity was generated and distributed. Tesla's innovations in AC electricity laid the foundation for modern power systems.