Nikola Tesla: With Mustafa Nadarevic, Rade Serbedzija, Spiro Guberina, Izet Hajdarhodzic. This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his
Noun1.Nikola Tesla- United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943) ...
In 1886, Tesla formed his own company, Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing. The initial financial investors disagreed with Tesla on his plan for an alternating current motor and eventually relieved him of his duties at the company. Tesla worked in New York as a common laborer from 1886 to 18...
尼古拉·特斯拉(Nik..尼古拉·特斯拉(Nikola Tesla,1856年-1943年),塞尔维亚裔美籍发明家、机械工程师和电机工程师。他被认为是电力商业化的重要推动者, 并因主持设计了现代广泛应用的交流电力系统而最为人知。
In 1885, George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company, (Edison andGeneral Electric’s chief competitor), bought the patent rights to Tesla's system of dynamos, transformers and motors. Westinghouse used Tesla's alternating current system to light the World's Columbian Exposition...
尼古拉·特斯拉:现代普罗米修斯的非凡人生Nikola Tesla was born in Serbia on a summer nightin 1856, during a lightning storm-which led themidwife to say, “He will be a child of the storm," and hismother to counter prophetically, No, of the light."In 1887, Tesla met two investors who agr...
Edison demurred, saying, “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor.” Tesla quit soon after. Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse After an unsuccessful attempt to start his own Tesla Electric Light Company and a stint digging ditches for $2 a day, Tesla found backers to support his ...
Tesla, an ethnic Serb from Smiljan, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, started out his engineering life working for a telephone company in Budapest in 1881, aged 24. He'd already studied physics and maths; While there - while walking in a park, in fact - he had an inspiration an...
sympathetic to Tesla’s situation. He introduced Tesla to A. K. Brown of the Western Union Telegraph Company. In April of 1887, Brown and a friend provided the money to create the “Tesla Electric Company.” By coincidence, Tesla’s new laboratory was located within sight of Edison’s ...
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