Tesla, a Prolific Humanitarian
and Inventor
Updated 12/30/08
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Some
of Tesla's More Notable Inventions:
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Practial
Radio (he first demonstrated an apparatus for radio transmission and reception
in 1893 during a lecture presentation in St. Louis before the National
Electric Light Association). This was fully
11 years before Marconi’s first wireless patent.
The US Supreme Court finally ruled in Tesla’s favor (posthumously) in “Tesla
v. Marconi”, Case 369, in June, 1944
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Tesla
invented Polyphase electric power - all present
day polyphase systems stem from Tesla's genius!
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Niagara
Falls was the site of the world's first commercial three-phase AC power
plant; the nameplates on the massive generators bore the name of Tesla.
It transmitted AC power to Buffalo, NY. It
was Tesla who set the 60 Hz standard for North America while working for
Westinghouse.
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Tesla
invented brushless synchronous and induction motors. All
present-day induction motors trace back to Tesla.
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Tesla
bladeless turbine and pump
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Wireless
electric power transmission concepts
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Wireless
Remote Control (Tesla demonstrated a wireless
controlled boat 1898!)
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Disinfectant
Treatment of Water with Ozone
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Fluorescent
Lighting (Tesla lit his lab with these 40
years before they became commercially available!)
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Synchronous
electromechanical rectification of high voltages
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Gas-Tube
rectification and rectification via corona discharge (foundation of Xerography)
- X-Rays
(3
Years before Roentgen re-discovered them!)
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Nikola Tesla was granted 221 Patents
worldwide, including 113 US Patents |
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