Nikola Tesla Inventions - Page 12
Inventions by Nikola Tesla
Tesla's ship's log, patented in 1919 under U.S. Patent 1,314,718 , employed a rotating impeller or rotor towed in water to measure speed and distance instantaneously. Fluid drag transmitted torque...
Patented in 1916 ( U.S. Patent 1,209,359 ), Tesla's air-friction speedometer used rotating disks against air resistance for accurate velocity measurement, avoiding mechanical gears. Applied in...
The Tesla turbine, patented in 1913 under U.S. Patent 1,061,206, is a bladeless centripetal-flow turbine designed by Nikola Tesla to convert fluid energy into mechanical power using boundary layer...