Nikola Tesla Inventions - Page 10

While no individual patents were filed directly for this aspect of Tesla's 613,809 Method of and Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vessels of Vehicles patent, this invention is the analog...

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...

Tesla's commutator for dynamo-electric machines, his first U.S. patent granted in 1886 under U.S. Patent 334,823, introduced a simple yet effective method to eliminate sparking in high-voltage dynamos...