Nikola Tesla Articles
The Teslian - Vol. I, No. 8 Page 8
The company ran under this name for one year but was dropped as a consequence of dissolved partnership. A few thousand circulars were distributed to Canadian interest in Tesla
TESLA TECHNICAL COMPANY
TRIBUTE TO THE LATE NIKOLA TESLA
"Tesla's ideas changed the face of the world and even in his dotage manufacturers were uneasy lest machines worth billions would be made obsolete by a final inspiration of the versatile but dying giant." (Reader's Digest July 1947)
In 1884 young Nikola Tesla came from Serbia to the Edison Electric Company in New York, as an engineer, with empty pockets but with his head full of ideas. One year later he had his own electrical company.
At the same time he continued the work which he had started in Europe on alternating current machines. Having obtained patents on A. C. machines, he sold them to the Westinghouse Company which immediately started manufacturing them Subsequently he developed the polyphase current system and the first large transmission of this new form of electrical energy was made in (1896) from Niagara Falls to Buffalo.
In New York Tesla founded a large laboratory with the money he obtained from the sale of these patents. In this laboratory he worked on high frequency currents fundamental to the wireless telegraphy. In 1895 his work was interrupted when his laboratory burned to the ground.
This was not the end of Tesla's work. He continued to discover many things fundamental to to-day's sciences. The induction motor, high frequency currents and oscillators, the application of these for technical and medical purposes, the discovery of radio principles basic to the radio guided missiles and other devices of to-day, fundamentals of electrical transmission of power, are some of the more important works of Nikola Tesla.
He died in 1943 in New York, leaving behind him such numerous accomplishments as are indicated below by this list of main patents:
- Commutators for dynamo machines
- Electric arc lamps
- Regulators for dynamo machines and arc lamps
- Machines polyphase
- Electric polyphase motors (27 patents)
- Transformers and way of distribution of polyphase currents
- Electrical transmission of Power (Base for to-day's industry)
- Converting of alternating current in direct current
- Motors thermomagnetic and pyromagnetic
- Generators of high frequency
- Bulbs for high frequency lighting
- High Frequency oscillators
- Wireless transmission (21 patents)
- Electrical condensers (capacitors)
- Turbines, speedometers, frequency meters, lighting dischargers, waterflow meters, etc.
These ideas, used throughout the world for the benefit of all, are the records of the life work of a forgotten man.
