WELCOME 2 CHaSKi`s DEDICATION 2 NIKOLA TESLA!
Who is Nikola Tesla, i hear you ask...Read on for a short description...
Nikola Tesla was an inventor/electrical engineer that lived from 1856-1943 and was born in Austria-Hungary. As the inventor of alternating current (what we plug our electronic devices into every day) and the AC induction motor, Tesla created brilliant inventions, but is only recognized by a few people. One of his best known inventions is an air-core transformer known as the Tesla coil. In short, the Tesla coil takes the output from a 120vAC to 5,000-15,000vAC transformer, and steps it up to arcs that can get over 1,000,000 volts. Many of Nikola Tesla's creations are now unknown or lost. These were amazing devices which, many years later, have never been reproduced. Tesla was the first to create radio; however, he is not given credit for it.
Despite these creations, Tesla was eventually erased from the history books. Tesla was often eccentric, and created devices that didn't help his position. The devices that he built always worked; but still, he was not thought of very highly. He had trouble obtaining funding for his projects, and this may have eventually lead to his inventions being lost. Perhaps now, he would have been accepted if not still considered a somewhat crazy, but it was not so in his day.
Sounds interesting doesn't it?
Here are a few links i can advise...
Nikola Tesla Museum
Listing of all his patents
The Nikola Tesla Resource Page
HoMe
This page was last visited & updated by CHaSKi on Tuesday, 20 February, 2001, 00:33 GMT+2=SAST.
