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 )

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* 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.

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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.

In 1891, Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil, an air-cored, dual-tuned resonant transformer for generating very high voltages at high frequency.

The three-phase system was invented by Galileo Ferraris and Nikola Tesla in 1887 and 1888.

When Nikola Tesla, for whom a memorial was later built at Niagara Falls, New York, U. S. A., invented the three-phase system of alternating current power transmission, distant transfer of electricity became possible, as Westinghouse and Tesla had built the AC-power Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and proved it effective.

The Serb Nikola Tesla went to the United States in 1884, where he invented the brushless electrical motor based on rotating magnetic fields.

" Nikola Tesla had recently invented a three-phase system of alternating current power transmission for distant transfer of electricity.

Based on this, practical alternating current induction motors seem to have been independently invented by Nikola Tesla and Galileo Ferraris.

Nikola Tesla and Michail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky invented the first practical induction motors using a rotating magnetic field-previously all commercial motors were DC, with expensive commutators, high-maintenance brushes and characteristics unsuitable for operation on an alternating current network.

Historically, the term Tesla principle was used to describe ( amongst other things ) certain reversible processes invented by Nikola Tesla.

One of the earliest wireless telephones to be based on radiant energy was invented by Nikola Tesla.

Nikola Tesla invented a remarkable number of electrical devices, as well as the integrated power plant capable of lighting multiple buildings simultaneously ; Thomas Edison, in addition to inventing hundreds of electrical devices, co-founded General Electric corporation.

It has been claimed that Stubblefield invented the radio before either Nikola Tesla or Guglielmo Marconi, but his devices seem to have worked by audio frequency induction or, later, audio frequency earth conduction ( creating disturbances in the near-field region ) rather than by radio frequency radiation for radio transmission telecommunications.

The plasma lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla after his experimentation with high-frequency currents in an evacuated glass tube for the purpose of studying high voltage phenomena, but the modern versions were first designed by Bill Parker.

The carbon button lamp is a single-electrode incandescent lamp invented by Nikola Tesla as one of a few improved lighting sources with regards to Thomas Edison's Incandescent light bulb.

Historically, the term Tesla principle was used to describe ( amongst other things ) certain reversible processes invented by Nikola Tesla.

In the other version of the story, the city's commander, Nikola Jurišić, was offered terms for a nominal surender.

Wireless detailed history and growth of the art includes the work of Nikola Tesla, Oliver Lodge, Marconi, Braun, Reginald Fessenden ( known for inventing the radiotelephony ), John Ambrose Fleming, Lee De Forest and many others.

* 1887 – 1889: Nikola Tesla of Smiljan, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria – Hungary files for patents on distribution of alternating current ( AC ) and polyphase induction motors and generators.

* IEEE Nikola Tesla Award ( for power technology )

Nikola Tesla in his later years conceptualized a so-called " death ray " ( a directed energy weapon ) and was sensationalized in the media, notably the New York Times and the New York Sun, as a prototypical mad scientist for it.

* Nikola Tesla was famous for developing the AC motor, the bifilar coil, various devices that used rotating magnetic fields, the alternating current polyphase power distribution systems, the fundamental devices of systems of wireless communication ( legal priority for the invention of radio ), radio frequency oscillators, devices for voltage magnification by standing waves, robotics, logic gates for secure radio frequency communications, devices for x-rays, apparatus for ozone generation, devices for ionized gases, devices for high field emission, devices for charged particle beams, methods for providing extremely low level of resistance to the passage of electrical current, means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations, voltage multiplication circuitry, devices for high voltage discharges, devices for lightning protection and VTOL aircraft.