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List of things named after Nikola Tesla


List of things named after Nikola Tesla


This article is a list of things named after the Serbian engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla.

Science and engineering

  • Tesla Experimental Station
  • Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (TSCW)
  • Tesla tower
  • Tesla coil
    • Singing Tesla coil
  • Tesla's oscillator
  • Tesla turbine
  • Tesla valve
  • Tesla's Egg of Columbus
  • Tesla (unit), an SI-derived unit for magnetic inductivity

Astronomical bodies

  • Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the Moon
  • 2244 Tesla, a minor planet

Other

Awards

  • The Nikola Tesla Award
  • Nikola Tesla Satellite Award

Biographical works

  • My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
  • Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
  • Tesla - Lightning in His Hand
  • The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
  • The Secret of Nikola Tesla

Enterprises and organizations

  • Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in former Czechoslovakia
  • Tesla, Inc, an American electric car manufacturer
  • Nikola Motor Company, an American hybrid truck design company
  • Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson
  • Nikola Tesla Museum
  • Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
  • Societies:
  • Tesla Memorial Society (founded 1979), originally Lackawanna, New York, currently Ridgewood, Queens, New York
  • International Tesla Society (founded 1984), Colorado Springs
  • Nikola Tesla Science Development Association, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Native Association of Krajišniks "Nikola Tesla", Plandište, Serbia
  • Tesla Savings Bank, Zagreb, Croatia

Holidays and events

  • Tesla Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • National Day of Science in Serbia, July 10
  • Nikola Tesla Day in Croatia, 10 July
  • Day of Nikola Tesla, Association of Teachers in Vojvodina, 4–10 July.
  • Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July.
  • Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia

Music

See: Nikola Tesla in popular culture

Places

  • Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan
  • Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)
  • Nikola Tesla Museum Archive in Belgrade
  • TPP Nikola Tesla, the largest power plant in Serbia
  • 128 streets in Croatia had been named after Nikola Tesla as of November 2008, making him the eighth most common street name origin in the country.
  • Nikola Tesla Boulevard, a portion of Burlington Street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Tesla Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin USA, the block running from North Rosa Road to North Kenosha Drive on the west side of Madison was long misspelled Telsa Terrace due to a sign-painting error in the 1940s or 1950s. The street's name was corrected to Tesla Terrace in 1987, after a class of Michigan third-graders mounted a letter-writing campaign in support of the change.

Schools

  • Tesla STEM High School created in 2012 in Redmond, Washington as a choice school with a focus on STEM subjects. The name was chosen by a student vote.

See also

  • Tesla (microarchitecture)
  • Nvidia Tesla
  • Nikola Tesla in popular culture

References


Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: List of things named after Nikola Tesla by Wikipedia (Historical)