Nikola Tesla Inventions - Page 2

Nikola Tesla's lightning protector, patented in 1918 under U.S. Patent 1,266,175 , challenged conventional pointed rods by using a smooth, ellipsoidal or cupola-shaped terminal with large radii of...

World's first and only valve with no moving parts. This device uses a series of specially-shaped chambers to create flow resistance in one direction, but not the other. It's also called a "fluid diode...

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...