Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

Nikola Tesla made long-distance electrical transmission networks possible.

In 1887, Nikola Tesla filed a number of patents related to a competing form of power distribution known as alternating current.

In 1895, Nikola Tesla was able to detect signals from the transmissions of his New York lab at West Point ( a distance of 80. 4 km / 49. 95 miles ).

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

* Inventor Nikola Tesla lived the last ten years of his life at the New Yorker Hotel until he died in his room in 1943.

He is also working on a documentary about the rock band The Stooges and co-writing a non-traditional opera about the inventor Nikola Tesla.

* 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer ( d. 1943 )

* Nikola Tesla Day

* 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1927 – Nikola Tesla exposed his six ( 6 ) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity

File: Tesla3. jpg | Nikola Tesla ( 1856-1943 ): developer of modern alternating current ( AC ) flow, improved on the dynamo, patents and theoretical work formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio, transformer and electric bulb and invented the Tesla coil.

Nikola Tesla experimentally demonstrated the transmission and radiation of radio frequency energy in 1892 and 1893 proposing that it might be used for the telecommunication of information.

In August 1917 Nikola Tesla outlined a concept for primitive radar units.

From left to right: Top row-Archimedes, Aristotle, Alhazen | Ibn al-Haytham, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ; Second row-Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel ; Third row-Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Henri Poincaré, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Max Planck ; Fourth row-Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Enrico Fermi ; Bottom row-J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking

As early as 1896, Nikola Tesla suggested that radio could be used to contact extraterrestrial life.

George Westinghouse and Edison became adversaries because of Edison's promotion of direct current ( DC ) for electric power distribution instead of the more easily transmitted alternating current ( AC ) system invented by Nikola Tesla and promoted by Westinghouse.

Another of Edison's assistants was Nikola Tesla.

The first medal was presented in 1909 to Elihu Thomson and, in a twist of fate, was awarded to Nikola Tesla in 1917.

His history with Nikola Tesla has also provided dramatic tension and is a theme returned to numerous times.

* Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla and other scientists and inventors showed the usefulness of wireless telegraphy, radiotelegraphy, or radio, beginning in the 1890s.

The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

Dr. Ljubo Vujovic ( 1998 ), Tesla Memorial Society of New York

NMR experiments can be made in magnetic fields with strengths up to 65 Tesla.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

Theremin recalled that while still in his last year of school, he had built a million-volt Tesla coil and noticed a strong glow associated with his attempts to ionise the air.

The Tesla method was described in New York in 1897.

In 1897, Tesla applied for two key United States radio patents,, first radio system patent, and.

Tesla also used sensitive electromagnetic receivers, that were unlike the less responsive coherers later used by Marconi and other early experimenters.

This also allowed the U. S. government ( among others ) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla for use of his patents.

Tesla called this invention the single terminal lamp, or, later, the " Inert Gas Discharge Tube.

*, " Electrical Igniter for Gas Engines ", Nikola Tesla, 1898.

One of Tesla ’ s desires for implementation of this turbine was for geothermal power, which was described in " Our Future Motive Power ".

A very high claim for rotor efficiency ( as opposed to overall device efficiency ) for this design was published in 1991 entitled " Tesla Turbomachinery ".

* " Tesla turbine ".

* Swithenbank, Alan, " The Tesla Boundary Layer Turbine ".

Shortly before his death in 1943, the Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla was said to have completed some kind of a " Unified Field Theory ".

Tesla called his boat a " teleautomaton ".

The soundtrack of the video game The Sims 3: Supernatural included a new Ladytron song, " Tesla ".

* Beckhard, Arthur J., " Electrical genius Nikola Tesla ".

*, Tesla, " Electromagnetic motor ".

* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, " Analysis and Control of subsynchronous resonance: presented at the IEEE Power Engineering Society 1976 winter meeting and Tesla symposium ".

* Tesla, Nikola, " On the Transmission of Electricity Without Wires ".

* de Queiroz, Antonio Carlos M., " Designing a Tesla Magnifier ".

In 1990, Tesla released Five Man Acoustical Jam, a live album featuring acoustic renditions of hits such as " Comin ' Atcha Live ", " Gettin ' Better ", " Modern Day Cowboy ", and " Love Song ".

On May 20, 2010, it was announced that Tesla Motors purchased a part in the NUMMI plant and will be collaborating with Toyota on the " development of electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support ".

: The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla ".

Cinqué Lee also appears in " Jack Shows Meg his Tesla Coil ".

Tesla called it the " transmission of electrical energy through one wire without return ".

* N. Tesla, " The True Wireless ".

Tesla stated, " I believe that when new types Van de Graaff generators are developed and sufficiently improved a great future will be assured to them ".

* Nikola Tesla, " Possibilities Of Electrostatic Generators ".

* Trinkaus, George, " The Lost Inventions of Nikola Tesla ".

In 1937, Tesla composed a treatise entitled " The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media ".

* Tesla, Nikola, " The Fairy Tale of Electricity ".