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.

Nikola Tesla invented a deceptively simple one-way valve for fluids in 1916, called a Tesla valve.

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

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.

* Nikola Tesla sells a number of his patents to George Westinghouse.

Knez Nikola sends Petar Vukotić, while a large number of Montenegrin volunteers arrive at the command of Peko Pavlović.

Although DUI won the largest number of seats among ethnic Albanian parties ( 14 ), since their Macedonian governmental partners lost the election, it was not invited by the new Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to participate in the new government.

His opposite number, Count Nikola Šubić Zrinski, was one of the largest landholders in the Kingdom of Croatia, a seasoned veteran of border warfare, and a Ban ( Croatian royal representative ) from 1542 to 1556.

As the professor at the University of Belgrade he was one of the founders ( 1938 ) of the Serbian Philosophical Society along with a number of noted Belgrade intellectuals, including Branislav Petronijević, Toma Živanović ( 1884 – 1971 ), Miloš Đurić ( 1892 – 1967 ), Prvos Slankamenac, Vladimir Dvorniković, Jelisaveta Branković, Zagorka Mićić, Kajica Milanov, Nikola Popović and others.

At the legislative elections in 2006 the party boosted its number of seats from 1 to 3 and Participated in its first coalition government with the VMRO – DPMNE led by Nikola Gruevski.

Included in this number are Mislav ( 1870 ), Ban Leget ( 1872 ), his masterpiece Nikola Šubić Zrinjski ( 1876 ), and Lizinka ( 1878 ), in addition to operettas, musical comedies, cantatas, songs and choral compositions, concerti, chamber music, and many other works.