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{{Infobox scientist
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| name = Nikola Tesla
| author = [[Velimir Abramovic]]
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| image = Nikola Tesla 1194.jpg
| published = 2008
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| alt = Nikola Tesla
| journal = [[None]]
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|07|10|mf=y}}
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| death_date = {{birth date|1943|01|07|mf=y}}
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| residence = New York, NY, United States
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| nationality = Serbian / USA
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| known_for = [[Wireless]], [[Energy Transmission]]
 
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==Abstract==
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<b>Nikola Tesla</b> ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet Serbian Cyrillic]: <span lang="sr" xml:lang="sr">&#1053;&#1080;&#1082;&#1086;&#1083;&#1072; &#1058;&#1077;&#1089;&#1083;&#1072;</span>) (10 July 1856 ? 7 January 1943) was an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor inventor] and a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_engineer mechanical] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineer electrical engineer]. Tesla was born in the village of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiljan Smiljan] near the town of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospi%C4%87 Gospi&#263;], in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia Croatia] (then part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Empire Austro-Hungarian Empire]). He was an ethnic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbs Serb] subject of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Empire Austrian Empire] and later became an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_citizen American citizen].<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-1 <span>[</span>2<span>]</span>]</sup> Tesla is often described as the most important [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist scientist] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor inventor] of the modern age, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-2 <span>[</span>3<span>]</span>]</sup> He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_and_magnetism electricity and magnetism] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_patents Tesla's patents] and theoretical work formed the basis of modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current alternating current] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power electric power] (AC) systems, including the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphase_system polyphase] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distribution power distribution] systems and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor#AC_motors AC motor], with which he helped usher in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Industrial_Revolution Second Industrial Revolution]. Contemporary biographers of Tesla have regarded him as "''The Father of Physics''", "''The man who invented the twentieth century''"<sup id="cite_ref-book_3-0" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-book-3 <span>[</span>4<span>]</span>]</sup> and "the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saint patron saint] of modern electricity."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-4 <span>[</span>5<span>]</span>]</sup>
  
<em>"I will not work for the present no more, I am working for the future"</em>- said Tesla to journalists gathered in New York City more than seven decades ago.- <em>"The future is mine!"</em> Inventor of alternating current, polyphase engines and generator, reversible magnetic field, radio, teleautomatics, inventor, on whose patents energetics of XX century is properly based, worked alone on explanation of cosmic processes during decades, having a desire to combine material and spiritual theoretically like he did it in his practical discoveries.[[Category:Scientific Paper]]
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After his demonstration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_communication wireless communication] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio radio]) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents War of Currents]", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-5 <span>[</span>6<span>]</span>]</sup> Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History history] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture popular culture],<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-6 <span>[</span>7<span>]</span>]</sup> but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_scientist mad scientist].<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-7 <span>[</span>8<span>]</span>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-8 <span>[</span>9<span>]</span>]</sup> Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.
  
[[Category:Tesla]]
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The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI SI] unit measuring [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_flux_density magnetic flux density] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic magnetic] induction (commonly known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field magnetic field] <b>B</b>), the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(unit) tesla]'', was named in his honour (at the ''Conf?rence G?n?rale des Poids et Mesures'', [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris], 1960), as well as the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer#Electrical_conduction Tesla effect]'' of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer wireless energy transfer] to wirelessly power electronic devices which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale (lightbulbs) as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial energy levels in his unfinished [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower Wardenclyffe Tower] project.
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Aside from his work on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism electromagnetism] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromechanical electromechanical] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering engineering], Tesla has contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics robotics], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control remote control], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar radar] and computer science, and to the expansion of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistics ballistics], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_physics nuclear physics],<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-9 <span>[</span>10<span>]</span>]</sup> and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics theoretical physics]. In 1943, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States Supreme Court of the United States] credited him as being the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio inventor of the radio].<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#cite_note-10 <span>[</span>11<span>]</span>]</sup> Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience pseudosciences], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object UFO theories], and early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age New Age] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult occultism].
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Tesla is honored in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia Serbia] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia Croatia], as well as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic Czech Republic] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania Romania]. He was awarded the highest order of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Lion White Lion] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia].
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==Abstracts==
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* 1994 - "[[World System of Wireles Transmission of Energy]]"
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* 1984 - "[[The New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media]]"
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==Books==
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* 2007 - "[[The Nikola Tesla Treasury]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nikola-Tesla-Treasury/dp/1934451908/ref=pd_sim_b_5 Read in full])
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* 2002 - "[[Nikola Tesla On His Work With Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview (Tesla Presents Series, Part 1)]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Alternating-Application-Telegraphy-Telephony-Transmission/dp/1893817016/ref=pd_sim_b_5 Read in full])
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* 1998 - "[[Nikola Tesla  Guided Weapons & Computer Technology (Tesla Presents Series, Part 3)]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nikola-Tesla-Computer-Technology-Presents/dp/0963601253/ref=pd_sim_b_3 Read in full])
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* 1998 - "[[Nikola Teslas Teleforce & Telegeodynamics Proposals (Tesla Presents Series, Part 4)]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nikola-Teleforce-Telegeodynamics-Proposals-Presents/dp/0963601288/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1228858164&sr=8-1 Read in full])
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* 1996/2007 - "[[Universal Laws Never Before Revealed: Keelys Secrets: Understanding and Using the Science of Sympathetic]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Laws-Never-Before-Revealed/dp/1572820039/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230745475&sr=1-1 Read in full])
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* 1994 - "[[Nikola Tesla Lecture Before the New York Academy of Sciences - April 6, 1897: The Streams of Lenard and Roentgen and Novel Apparatus for Their Production (Tesla Presents Series, Part 2)]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Nikola-Tesla-Sciences-Apparatus-Production/dp/096360127X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1228856732&sr=8-1 Read in full])
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* 1919/1998 - "[[Tesla: The True Wireless]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Tesla-True-Wireless-Nikola/dp/0970961847/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236880210&sr=11-1 Read in full])
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*  - "[[Nikola Tesla Patent Collection]]" ([http://www.tfcbooks.com/mall/more/cd80ntpc.htm Read in full])
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*  - "[[The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun?s Energy]]" ([http://www.teslaengine.org/main.html#PIHE Read in full])
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[[Category:Scientist|Tesla Nikola]]

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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Born (1856-07-10)July 10, 1856
Died (1943-01-07)January 7, 1943
Residence New York, NY, United States
Nationality Serbian / USA
Known for Wireless, Energy Transmission

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 ? 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla was born in the village of Smiljan near the town of Gospić, in Croatia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen.[2] Tesla is often described as the most important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth".[3] He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Contemporary biographers of Tesla have regarded him as "The Father of Physics", "The man who invented the twentieth century"[4] and "the patron saint of modern electricity."[5]

After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America.[6] Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture,[7] but due to his eccentric personality and his seemingly unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist.[8][9] Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.

The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field B), the tesla, was named in his honour (at the Conf?rence G?n?rale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960), as well as the Tesla effect of wireless energy transfer to wirelessly power electronic devices which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale (lightbulbs) as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial energy levels in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.

Aside from his work on electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla has contributed in varying degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science, and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics,[10] and theoretical physics. In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio.[11] Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism.

Tesla is honored in Serbia and Croatia, as well as in the Czech Republic and Romania. He was awarded the highest order of the White Lion by Czechoslovakia.

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