List of things named after Nikola Tesla
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This article is a list of things named after the engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla.
Contents
Science and engineering
- Tesla coil
- Tesla's Egg of Columbus
- Tesla Experimental Station
- Tesla's oscillator
- Tesla tower
- Tesla turbine
- Tesla (unit), an SI-derived unit for magnetic inductivity
- Tesla valve
Astronomical bodies
- Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the moon[1]
- 2244 Tesla, a minor planet[1]
Other
Awards
Biographical works
- My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
- Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
- Tesla - Lightning in His Hand
- The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla
Enterprises and organizations
- Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in former Czechoslovakia
- Tesla, Inc, an American electric car manufacturer[3]
- Nikola Motor Company, an American hybrid truck design company[4][5]
- Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson[6]
- Nikola Tesla Museum
- Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
- Societies:[7]
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- Tesla Memorial Society (founded 1979), originally Lackawanna, New York, currently Ridgwood, Queens, New York
- International Tesla Society (founded 1984), Colorado Springs
- Udruženje za razvoj nauke Nikola Tesla, Novi Sad, Serbia[8]
- Zavičajno udruženje Krajišnika Nikola Tesla, Plandište, Serbia[9]
- Tesla Bank, Zagreb, Croatia[10]
Holidays and events
- National Day of Science in Serbia, July 10
- Nikola Tesla Day in Croatia, 10 July[11]
- Day of Nikola Tesla, Association of Teachers in Vojvodina, 4–10 July.[12]
- Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July.[13]
- Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia[14]
Music
See: Nikola_Tesla_in_popular_culture#Music
Places
- Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan
- Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport[15]
- Nikola Tesla Museum Archive in Belgrade[16][17]
- TPP Nikola Tesla, the largest power plant in Serbia
- 128 streets in Croatia had been named after Nikola Tesla as of November 2008, making him the eighth most common street name origin in the country.[18]
- Tesla Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin USA, the block running from North Rosa Road to North Kenosha Drive on the west side of Madison was long misspelled Telsa Terrace due to a sign-painting error in the 1940s or 1950s. The street's name was corrected to Tesla Terrace in 1987, after a class of Michigan third-graders mounted a letter-writing campaign in support of the change. [19][20]
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Schools
- Tesla STEM High School created in 2012 in Redmond, Washington as a choice school with a focus on STEM subjects. The name was chosen by a student vote.[21]
See also
References
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