Nikola Tesla and his curiosities: My grandfather told me about Nikola Tesla, who he was and what he did.
He kept plans for his inventions in his head, and did not write them down because of the danger of theft.
As part of Nikola Tesla's contribution to science, on the centenary of his birth on June 27, 1956 in Munich, the International Electrotechnical Commission decided to introduce the Tesla (T) unit for magnetic induction. (T = Wb / m2 or T = N / (m x A))
In the world of film, there is an award named after Nikola Tesla - official name: Nicola Tesla Award in Recognition for Visionary Achievements in the World of Digital Technology and Sound. The award is given to people who have achieved exceptional results in the field of film technique. So far, they have received her: 2005 - Jerry Lewis, 2004 - director James Cameron, 2003 - director George Lucas, Stan Winston ...
By the decision of the Government of Serbia from August 2010, the day of Nikola Tesla's birth, July 10, was declared the Day of Science in Serbia.
There is an electrical engineering institute "Nikola Tesla" in Belgrade, founded in 1936.
The University Library of the University of Nis is called Nikola Tesla.
The Electrical Engineering Schools in Belgrade, Nis, Zrenjanin and the Electrical Engineering and Construction School in Jagodina are named "Nikola Tesla".
Two thermal power plants in Serbia are named "Nikola Tesla A" and "Nikola Tesla B" in honor of Tesla
The airport in Belgrade is called Nikola Tesla Airport. [54]
The accelerator installation at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences is called "Tesla".
During the existence of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, the University of Knin was called the "Nikola Tesla" University.
By the decree of the Supreme Headquarters of the NOVJ of March 19, 1944, the Sixth Lika Division of the NOVJ, which consisted mainly of Serbs from Lika, was declared proletarian for its achievements and was named the Sixth Lika Proletarian Division "Nikola Tesla".
The archival material from Tesla's legacy, from the Nikola Tesla Museum, was entered into the UNESCO register of the memory of the world on October 16, 2003, based on the decision of the Director General of UNESCO, Koićir Macura.
The American hard rock band Tesla was named after our scientist as an expression of gratitude for providing them with electricity, without which there would be no electric guitars.
In 1975, his name was introduced to the House of Famous Inventors of America.
On July 10, 1990, Tesla's birthday was celebrated in the American Congress. Nine congressmen and Senator Carl Levin of Michigan spoke at the ceremony. Such a part in American history has not been pointed out to any American scientist, not even Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell.
There is a celestial body, an asteroid, 2244 Tesla. The asteroid was discovered by the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, and then appointed by astronomer Milorad B. Protić.
Nils Bohr once said: Tesla's ingenious inventions deeply influenced our entire civilization.
The American engineer and professor B. A. Berend wrote in his book in 1921: Tesla left no one else to do. If we excluded the results of Tesla's research work from the industry, all the wheels of that industry would stop turning, our trams and trains would stop, our cities would be in the dark, and our factories would be dead and unemployed.
Tesla ate exclusively vegetarian food.
The famous Museum of Wax Figures Madame Tiso, the New York branch of the famous London house, is preparing a figure of Nikola Tesla in wax and will place it next to Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
Although many artists wanted Tesla to pose for their portrait, he almost always refused. Only the painter and princess Wilma Lvov-Parlagi succeeded in 1916 in convincing Tesla to pose for her. All other portraits of Tesla were made according to photographs. Tesla did not like the lighting in the studio and he made the arrangement of lamps whose light was filtered through blue glass. This is how the portrait in the oil on canvas technique, known as the Blue Portrait, was created, which was reproduced in January 1919 in the magazine Elektrikal Eksperimenter as an illustration with Tesla's autobiographical feuilleton My Inventions and on July 20, 1931 on the cover of Time magazine. It is not known where this portrait is today.
Tesla only once expressed a wish for an artist to make a portrait of him. On August 18, 1939, he sent a telegram to Zagreb to his friend, the famous Yugoslav sculptor Ivan Meštrović. Due to the circumstances, Meštrović made Tesla's bust only in 1952. Casts of this bust are kept in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, in the Lika Museum in Gospić and in the Technical Museum in Vienna.
In 1993, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of this great scientist, and in memory of his invaluable contribution to humanity, the painting "Spirit of Tesla" by Dragan Malešević Tapi was created. This painting was on the title page of the catalog of the exhibition organized on this occasion at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade and also represents one of the most significant works of this Serbian painter.
Artists and Marina Abramović recorded in 2003 in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade the video installations Count on Us and Count on Us II, which were inspired by the life and work of Nikola Tesla.
David Bowie - a legendary British musician, plays the role of Tesla in the film Prestige (2006), where he performs together with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Kane and Scarlett Johansson. The prestige was directed by renowned British director Christopher Nolan.
The American company Tesla Motors was the first to start serial and mass production of a purely electric car, first a sports Tesla roadster during 2008 and then in 2012 a Tesla S family car.
Tesla Crater is located on the Moon. It has a diameter of 26 kilometers. Its selenographic latitude is -2.0 °, and its length is -132.0 °.
As part of Tesla's birthday on July 10, 2009, Google displayed its logo with the syllable "G" in the shape of Tesla's transformer.
Tesla Pancevo, a company for the production of electric light bulbs from Pancevo.
The Croatian telephony company is named Nikola Tesla Erickson.
Nikola Tesla settlement in the municipality of Niska Banja.
Factory of electronic equipment and radio lamps (electronic tubes) "Tesla" in Liptovský Hradok in the Slovak Republic, founded during Czechoslovakia.
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