List of things named after Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)

This article is a list of things named after the Serbian engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla.

Science and engineering

• Tesla Experimental Station
• Tesla tower
• Tesla coil
  • Singing Tesla coil
• Tesla's oscillator
• Tesla turbine
• Tesla valve
• Tesla's Egg of Columbus
• Tesla (unit), an SI-derived unit for magnetic inductivity

Astronomical bodies

• Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the Moon ^[1]
• 2244 Tesla, a minor planet ^[1]

Other

Awards

• The Nikola Tesla Award ^[2]
• Nikola Tesla Satellite Award

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

Museums

• Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade (since 1952) ^{[3] [4]}
• Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan (since 1956)
• Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (since 2013)
• Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb (since 2015)

Enterprises and organizations

• Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in former Czechoslovakia
• Tesla, Inc, an American electric car manufacturer ^[5]
• Nikola Motor Company, an American hybrid truck design company ^{[6] [7]}
• Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson ^[8]
• Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
• Societies: ^[9]

• Tesla Memorial Society (founded 1979), originally Lackawanna, New York, currently Ridgewood, Queens, New York
• International Tesla Society (founded 1984), Colorado Springs

• Nikola Tesla Science Development Association, Novi Sad, Serbia ^[10]
• Native Association of Krajišniks "Nikola Tesla", Plandište, Serbia ^[11]
• Tesla Savings Bank, Zagreb, Croatia ^[12]

Holidays and events

• Tesla Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia ^[13]
• National Day of Science in Serbia, July 10
• Nikola Tesla Day in Croatia, 10 July ^[14]
• Day of Nikola Tesla, Association of Teachers in Vojvodina, 4–10 July. ^[15]
• Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July. ^[16]
• Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia ^[17]

Music

See: Nikola Tesla in popular culture

Places

Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan, Croatia

• Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG) ^[18]
• 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. ^[19]
• Nikola Tesla Boulevard, a portion of Burlington Street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ^[20]
• 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. ^{[21] [22]}

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. ^[23]

See also

• Tesla (microarchitecture)
• Nvidia Tesla
• Nikola Tesla in popular culture

References

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23. "STEM High School formally named after Nikola Tesla". Redmond Reporter . 21 March 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2017.