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- 1. NIKOLA TESLA NAME: JOSÉLUIS PÉREZ KENNY PABÓN DAYANNA VERA DATE: WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER 2015 SECTION: L5-004 LECTURER: DOT MACKENZIE
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- 3. Biography • Physicist, mechanicaland electrical engineer and an inventor. • Born in Smiljan, Croatia. On July 10th, 1856 during a night of thunderstorms. • Fourth of five children. • Father was Milutin Tesla, an Orthodox priest • Mother was Djuka Mandic, whose father was also an Orthodox priest. • Attended elementary school in Smiljan • Studied German, arithmetic and religion.
- 4. • In June1884, moved to New York City • Hired to work for Thomas Edison in Edison Machine Works designing motors and generators. • In 1888, held first practical system design to generate and transmit alternating current electric power systems. • Developed induction motor Alternating Current. • Never married • Said that chastity was very helpful to his scientific skills. • Died on January 7th, 1943 in New York.
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- 6. ABOUT HIS WORK Electromagnetism Robotics Remotecontrol Computer science Electromechanical engineering Expansion of ballistic discoveries Nuclear physics Theoretical Physics
- 7. EARLY WORK • Inearly 1880s. Tesla joined Continental Edison Company in Paris. • Came to United States in 1884 to work with Thomas Edison
- 8. WORKING WITH WESTINGHOUSE •Tesla designed and held 40 patents on generators, motors, and transformers, all developed for AC system. • George Westinghouse purchased patents from Tesla in hopes of bringing Alternating Current to America. Tesla’s egg of Columbus Induction motor
- 9. TESLA’S NOTABLE WORK •Radio • Wireless communication • Wireless transmission of electricity • Vertical Take off and Land (VTOL) Bi- plane • X-ray • Tesla coil
- 10. COLORADO SPRINGS • Discoveredmost important discovery Terrestrial Stationary Waves. • Meant that Earth could be “Used as a conductor and would be as responsive as a tuning fork to certain frequencies of electrical vibrations”.
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- 12. Things You didn’tKnow about Nikola Tesla • 1) Born at midnight, during an electric storm. The midwife said it meant bad luck and he was going to be a son of the darkness, but his mother said: “No, he is going to be a son of the light”. • 2) Thought he should have a healthy body to have a healthy mind, so he walked 8-10 km every day. • 3) Took care of his appearance, and was always dressed elegantly. • 4) Celibate his whole life. Never had a girlfriend, never got married and never had children.
- 13. • 5) Lovedthe pigeons. Last days of his life he went to the park every day to feed pigeons. Took care of injured pigeons in his room, restoring their health. Once he spent $2,000 to make an orthopedic device for a pigeon. • 6) He could speak perfectly 8 languages: Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin. • 7) He was a friend of many writers, e.g. Mark Twain. Both admired the other one’s work before they met. Twain described a Tesla motor as the most valuable patent since the invention of the phone.
- 14. • 8) Didn’tlike jewelry. Thought it was a waste of money. • 9) Worked for Thomas Edison who promised to pay him $50,000 to do an impossible task, but when Tesla had finished his task, Edison refused to pay him. • 10) First man to receive radio signals from the outer space. • 11) Could do very advanced calculus in his mind without needing paper or experiments. He just built his inventions when they were finished.
- 15. • 14) Diedstrangulated by German spies, who dressed him up and left the body on his bed. • 15) After his death, his documents were taken by the US government and kept as top secret. 12) Only slept 3 hours per day. His neighbors said that he could stay active 150 hours. 13) Won the Nobel prize in 1915, but he refused to accept it.