Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Some of his key accomplishments included developing the AC induction motor and contributions to the design of radio, remote control, X-rays, and wireless power. However, he struggled financially in later life as some of his ideas were seen as impractical or were ahead of their time. He died in 1943 in New York at the age of 86.

1. Presentation Session
Presentator: Shishir Aryal
Topic: Monarch of Electricity

2. Organized By:

3. Nikola Tesla (The Master of Lightening)
Birth: July 10, 1856
Death: January 7, 1943
Quotes:
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one
decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but
one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Awards:
Order of the Yugoslav Crown
John Scott Legacy and medal
IEEE Edison medal
IEEE Neckola Tesla

4. Timeline
Born in
Smiljan
Croatia
(1859)
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Anna
AC
Revelation
(1882)
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Columbian
Exposition
(1893)
CHESTER,
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Niagara
Falls
(1894)
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Anna
Cold
Springs
(1899)
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Wardenclyffe
Tower
(1901-1904)
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Dies In
New York
(1943)
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Anna

5. Chapter -1
Early years… schooling… a near brush
with death… Tesla’s eureka…
…I observed to my delight that I could visualize with the
greatest facility. I needed no models, drawings or
experiments. I could picture them all as real in my mind.
-Nikola Tesla Tesla age 23 in
Gratz Austria

6. What was the age of Nikola Tesla when he
was in Gratz Austria?
Hint: Written below in the previous photo
Time for some quiz

7. 23 Tesla age 23 in
Gratz Austria

8. Background
My mother was an inventor of the
first order and would, I believe, have
achieved great things had she not
been so remote from modern life and
its multifold opportunities.
-Nikola speaking of Djouka
Tesla Tesla family home in Smiljan, Croatia

9. Change of Plans..
I was intended from my very birth for the clerical position and this
thought constantly oppressed me.
-NikolaTesla
Nikola’s father Mulitin
Tesla

10. AC Polyphase System
Mr. Tesla may do many things, but this he cannot
accomplish. His plan is simply a perpetual motion machine.
-Professor Poeschl
…the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the
truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram
shown six years later in my address before the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers.
- -Nikola Tesla

11. Chapter -2
Arriving in America… Telsa meets the Wizard of Menlo Park…
hard labor and first break
I know two great men and you are one of
them; the other is this young man.
-Charles Batchelor of Tesla in a letter to
Thomas Edison 1884
Tesla aged 29, one year after arriving in New York
City

12. Wizard of Menlo Park
Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor.
-Thomas Edison
What I had left was beautiful, artistic and fascinating in
every way; what I found was machined, rough and
unattractive. Is this America?
It is a century behind Europe in civilization.
-Nikola Tesla, 1884
Personally inscribed
photograph given to Tesla

13. Who was the first scientist whom Tesla met after ariving
America?
Einstein
Charles
Batchelor
Time for some quiz

14. Chapter -3
The current wars… lighting the Columbian Exposition…
harnessing Niagra Falls…
Tesla at the height of his fame age
36, 1894

15. Current Wars : DC vs. AC
vs
Tell Westinghouse to stick to air brakes. He knows all
about them.
-Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse formed an alliance
with Tesla

16. Just as certain as death, Westinghouse will kill a customer within six months after
he puts in a system of any size…It will never be free of danger.
-Thomas Edison
The electric charge was too weak and
the miserable work had to done again,
becoming an awful spectacle, far worse
than hanging.
-New York Times,
August 7, 1890

17. Columbian Exposition
Building of Electricity
‘Court of Honor’ at the Columbian
Exposition Chicago, 1893

18. What was the name of the exposition held at
Chicago in 1893?
Time for some quiz

19. Niagara Falls
AC Power Generators at Niagara Falls

20. Electric Sorcerer
Tesla passing 500,000 volts through his body in
1898
Mark Twain visiting
Tesla’s New York
laboratory in 1895

21. Shadowgraphs
The effects on the sensitive plate are due to projected
particles or else to vibrations of extremely high
frequencies.
The streams are formed of matter in some primary or
elementary condition…Similar streams must be emitted by
the sun an probably by other sources of radiant energy.
-Nikola Tesla
X-ray of a hand taken by
Tesla

22. Roentgen rays (x-rays)
July 20, 1901
Dear Sir!
You have surprised me tremendously with the
beautiful photographs of wonderful discharges and I
tell you thank you very much for that. If only I knew
how you make such things!
With the expression of special respect I remain yours
devoted,
W. C. Roentgen

23. Time for some quiz
Tesla passing ???,000 volts through his body in 1898
Fill in:

24. Weapon to End War
“Teleautomaton” - a remote controlled torpedo boat including
the first logic gate

25. Electro-Mechanical
Oscillator
Earthquake Machine
Suddenly all the heavy machinery in the place
was flying around. I grabbed a hammer and broke
the machine. The building would have been about
our ears in another few minutes. Outside in the
street there was pandemonium. The police and
ambulances arrived. I told my assistants to say
nothing. We told the police it must have been an
earthquake. That's all they ever knew about it.
-Nikola Tesla, 1898

26. Chapter -4
Cold Springs laboratory… wireless transport of energy… signals
from outer space…
The gods of the storm burst forth with one of
the grandest electrical displays ever
witnessed and for an hour the heavens were
lit with living fire.
-Nikola Tesla in Colorado Springs

27. Earth and Atmosphere
Schumann Resonance Global lighting strike distribution
Impossible as it seemed, this planet, despite its
vast extent, behaved like a conductor of limited
dimensions.
- -Nikola Tesla

28. Time for some quiz
Where did Nikola Tesla first got the signals from outer
space?
Newyork's
Laboratory
Colorado spring's
laboratory
Wardenclyffe
Tower
Gratz Austria

29. Ridicule and radio astronomy
It is a rule of a sound philosophizing to examine all
probable causes for an unexplained phenomena
before invoking the most improbable ones.
-Colorado Springs Newspaper 1901

30. We will close the switch only for a second and then
quickly open it…
…Now! Czito, close the switch.

31. Chapter -5
World Wireless… Wardenclyffe… radio wars
It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical
engineering, only expensive... blind, faint-hearted,
doubting world.
-Nikola Tesla 1905
Tesla age 64, 1920

32. World Wireless

33. Time for some quiz
Was Tesla harmed during his stunt/experiment with the Tesla
coil?
Yes No
A little

34. Wardenclyffe
Completed Wardenclyffe Tower,
1904
A frustrated and impatient J. P.
Morgan

35. A new competitor in wireless
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using
seventeen of my patents.
-Nikola Tesla

36. Chapter -6
Pigeons… Tesla’s legacy…

37. Time for some quiz
Who was the financier of the Tesla's Wardenclyfee tower's
project?
Hint:

38. Signs of deterioration…
Tesla planning elaborate menus for pet pigeons…

39. Postlude
“Peace Ray” or
“Death Ray”

40. Death

41. Any queries?

42. Special thanks to: