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    Tesla Coil Research Paper

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    The Tesla Coil is a very enthralling invention created by Nikola Tesla in 1891. The high voltage, high frequency output of the amazing machine can cause strange effects in all sorts of materials. Though not a well known invention, the Tesla Coil plays a gigantic role in television and radio today. How does it work? What materials are used to make it? How can it be used today? And overall who was Nikola Tesla? The Tesla Coil is comprised of the following materials: a chassis, frame, cabinet or…

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    Nikola Tesla's Legacy

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    The Legacy of Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla is easily considered one of the world’s greatest inventors. His inventions in electricity have shaped the way we use technology today. His technological advances were so ahead of his time that Nikola Tesla’s fame and recognition did not come until after his death, which is what makes his legacy so significant. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Smiljan, a town located in what is today Croatia. Tesla’s knack for invention was inspired by his mother, Djuka…

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    amount of inventors, engineers and futurists emerged. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. His passion for electrical engineer was instigated by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who built him numerous gadgets while he was growing up. While Tesla has attending the University of Prague in Graz, Austria, he became acquainted with the Gramme dynamo, which was used as an add-on generator in manufacturing and farming machinery. Tesla took advantage of this generator to convert it into…

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    Nikola Tesla's War

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    Nikola Tesla was a man of wisdom. The war he had with Thomas edison went on for a long time. Nikola tesla invented the ac, a type of current we still use today. The whole war was over eddison and is dc current. Which means direct current. Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia. He was not an american citizen at first. He came from the austrian empire to america. From 1856 to 1867 he was apart of the empire. Then he came to america and became a citizen here. His father was a priest…

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    Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in what is now Croatia, although he was a native of the neighbouring country of Serbia. His mother was very interested in machinery and was an amateur inventor herself, so she encouraged his interest in science and electricity. His father was a priest who wanted Tesla to follow in his footsteps. Tesla was interested in the transmission of electricity from a young age. He studied maths and physics at the Technical University of Graz, but he dropped out before…

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    While Tesla was a visionary leader capable of inspiring and leading change, his divergent ethics while in the pursuit of change painted another picture of the wizard. According to Seifer (1998), with the help of investors he gained due to success at the World Fair, he was able to fund the construction of a wireless telegraph system. However, while in construction, another inventor in Europe stole his patented ideas and successfully created his own system for which Tesla filed suit and lost.…

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    world history. Shouldn’t you know about him? Well, I think you should. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor born in 1856 in a small village in Serbia during the Austrian regime. In 1884 Tesla emigrated into the United States to work for the famous scientist Thomas Alva Edison in New York City. If Tesla had stayed in Serbia, he might had died in the First world war and we couldn’t define modern era as it is today. Tesla shouldn’t have stayed in Serbia if he wanted to achieve his…

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    let me start off by saying that both Tesla and Edison had many inventions that changed the world in a way. They both to me in my opinion were the utmost ingenious people to put forth ideas that no one else would of thought before. If it weren't for them both we won't be holding some of the stuff that we have today, like our phones and instead of electricity something else like candle power. I would love to be an apprentice on their side for either Edison or Tesla because it would have been so…

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    Electric whose bid only cost $399,000; Westinghouse won the contract. In 1895, Westinghouse won a contract to build a hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls, and he sealed the alternating currents place in history. At the opening of the plant in 1897, Tesla, Westinghouse’s compatriot, said…

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    Nix states that Tesla favored AC and Edison favored DC, in order to discredit Tesla, Edison showed that AC was dangerous by using it to make the first electric chair (Nix). Transition: Edison was not the inventor that we remember. II. Thomas Edison was willing to cross lines to get what he wanted…

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