Nikola Tesla Inventions - Page 2
Inventions by Nikola Tesla
In 1894, Tesla pioneered X-ray imaging, or "shadowgraphs," using high-voltage vacuum tubes to produce radiographs months before Wilhelm Röntgen's 1895 announcement. Experimenting with Crookes tubes...
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...
While no patent applications were submitted for this device, it has become synonymous with Tesla, mentioned in almost every biography written about him. The Egg of Columbus was also one of Tesla's...