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Biography of Nikola TeslaName: Nikola TeslaBirth Date: July 9, 1856 Death Date: January 7, 1943 Place of Birth: Smiljan, Croatia Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: inventor, electrical engineer Nikola Tesla The Croatian-American inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) invented the induction motor and the transformer known as the Tesla coil and discovered the rotating magnetic field principle.Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia on July 9, 1856. He attended the Polytechnic School at Graz for four years and spent a year at the University of Prague (1879-1880). His first employment was in a government telegraph engineering office in Budapest, where he made his first invention, a telephone repeater, and conceived the idea of a rotating magnetic field. He subsequently worked in Paris and Strasbourg.In 1884 Tesla went to the United States. He was associated briefly with Thomas Edison in New Jersey, where he designed new dynamos, but the two had a salary misunderstanding and Tesla withdrew. After a difficult period, during which Tesla invented but lost his rights to an arc-lighting system, he established his own laboratory in New York City in 1887.…showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1917. He died in New York City on January 7, 1943, the holder of more than 700 patents. Further Reading The outstanding biography of Tesla is John J. O'Neill, Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (1944). O'Neill's portrait is sensitive and sympathetic, if somewhat metaphysical, but it describes Tesla's electrical contributions thoroughly. Two popular accounts are Arthur J. Beckhard, Electrical Genius: Nikola Tesla (1959), and Inez Hunt and Wanetta W. Draper, Lightning in His Hand (1964).Cheney, Margaret, Tesla, Man Out of Time, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981.Nikola Tesla: Life and Work of a Genius, Belgrade: Yugoslav Society for the Promotion of Scientific Knowledge Nikola Tesla, 1976.Seifer, Marc, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub., 1996.Tesla, Nikola, The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, Stelle, Ill.: Adventures Unlimiteds, 1993.Tesla, Nikola, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, Williston, Vt.: Hart Bros., 1982. |