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Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla ( / ˈtɛslə /; [ 2] Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [ O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American [ 3][ 4] engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Benjamin Vale. Defunct. 1886. ( 1886) Headquarters. Rahway, New Jersey. , United States. Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company was an electric lighting company in Rahway, New Jersey that operated from December 1884 through 1886.
The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...
The carbon button lamp is a single- electrode incandescent lamp invented by Nikola Tesla in the 1890s. [ 1] A carbon button lamp contains a small carbon sphere positioned in the center of an evacuated glass bulb. This type of lamp must be driven by high-frequency alternating current, and depends on an electric arc or perhaps a vacuum arc to ...
The World Wireless System was a turn of the 20th century proposed telecommunications and electrical power delivery system designed by inventor Nikola Tesla based on his theories of using Earth and its atmosphere as electrical conductors. He claimed this system would allow for "the transmission of electric energy without wires" on a global scale ...
The internal-electrodeless lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla after his experimentation with high-frequency currents in evacuated glass tubes for the purposes of lighting and the study of high voltage phenomena. The first practical plasma lamps were the sulfur lamps manufactured by Fusion Lighting. This lamp suffered several practical problems ...
1893 Nikola Tesla puts forward his ideas on high frequency and wireless electric lighting [8] [9] which included public demonstrations where he lit a Geissler tube wirelessly. 1894 Daniel McFarlan Moore creates the Moore tube, precursor of electric gas-discharge lamps.
Nikola Tesla was an inventor who obtained around 300 patents [ 1] worldwide for his inventions. Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. There are a minimum of 278 patents [ 1] issued to Tesla in 26 countries that have been accounted for.