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Nikola Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated low-cal seedling which was illuminated without wires by an electromagnetic field from the "Tesla Coil".

Tesla's AC Induction Motor is one of the ten greatest discoveries of all time

Above: I of the original AC Tesla Induction Motors on display in the British Science Museum in London. This motor was referenced in T.C. Martin's book equally loaned past Tesla to Prof. Ayrton in England. In 1892, Tesla delivered his famous lecture before the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Imperial Institution of Great Britain, in London, where he gave his original induction motor to Prof. Ayrton. Photo from Jim Morford. Tesla Memorial Guild of New York is grateful for Mr. Morford's educational photographs and texts.

To a higher place: Text from T.C. Martin's book.

Above: Poster by Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, President, Tesla Memorial Society of New York, describing how the rotating magnetic field was discovered by Tesla in Budapest, 1882.

Nikola Tesla was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame for his invention of the Electro-Magnetic Motor - Alternating Electric current in 1975

To a higher place: Hall of Fame Inventor Profile

The following beneath can exist plant at Nikola Tesla'southward Hall of Fame Inventor Profile

Nikola Tesla
Born Jul 10 1856 - Died January seven 1943

Electro-Magnetic Motor
Alternating Electric current
Patent Number(s) 381,968

Inducted 1975

Nikola Tesla invented the induction motor with rotating magnetic field that fabricated unit drives for machines feasible and made Ac power transmission an economical necessity.

In 1887 and 1888 Tesla had an experimental shop at 89 Liberty Street, New York, and there he invented the induction motor. He sold the invention to Westinghouse in July 1888 and spent a year in Pittsburgh instructing Westinghouse engineers.

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Inventor Bio

Born in Smiljan Lika, Croatia, the son of a Serbian Orthodox clergyman, Tesla attended Joanneum, a polytechnic school in Graz and the Academy of Prague for two years. He started work in the engineering department of the Austrian telegraph system and then became an electrical engineer at an electric ability company in Budapest and later at some other in Strasbourg. While in technical school, Tesla became convinced that commutators were unnecessary on motors; and while with the power visitor he built a rough motor which demonstrated the truth of his theory. In 1884, Tesla came to the United states of america and joined the Edison Motorcar Works every bit a dynamo designer.

Telsa obtained more 100 patents in his lifetime. Despite his 700 inventions Tesla was not wealthy. For many years he worked in his room at the Hotel New Yorker, where he died.

Above: One of the original Tesla Electric Motors from 1888 which is today the principal power of for industry and household appliances. Tesla'due south Electric Motor is one of the x greatest inventions of all times.

Above: Tesla's Alternate Current Motor found at the Smithsonian Establishment in Washington D.C. (For more information go to: Smithsonian Institution (Museum) in Washington D.C. pays tribute to Nikola Tesla)

In a higher place: The states Postal Stamps- "A Tribute to American Inventors" - Nikola Tesla and his induction motor.

Tesla's Alternating Current Motor is considered the top 10 discoveries of all times

Tesla Motors - Westinghouse Photograph Drove

- The great victory of Tesla/Westinghouse's Polyphase alternating current system electricity.

By Dr. Ljubo Vujovic and Marko Vujovic

The World Columbian Exposition was the World'south Fair commemorating 400 years since Christopher Columbus gear up foot in the New World. Located on Lake Michigan to facilitate access by sea, road and rail. It was a gathering of ideas, men and technologies from every quarter of the world, with each country contributing its all-time of their industrial, cultural, commercial and educational enterprises. The Renaissance style of the exposition buildings was unsurpassed by its architecture beauty. The Exposition itself was a work of art. The Exposition was a brilliant spectacle of scientific discipline, art and industry. All the globe has its pilgrimage to Columbian Exposition in 1893. Westinghouse became dedicated to promoting the polyphase alternate current organization and felt that his best chance to introduce it to the public at big would be at the 1893 World'southward Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The exposition was the greatest event in America and in the world at that time. Always the ingenious promoter Westinghouse outbid Edison for the contract to ability the expositions lighting and electric systems. Over Two Hundred thousand electric low-cal bulbs were illuminated by Tesla'southward polyphase alternating current arrangement. The Westinghouse display was a historic collection of machines, all powered with Tesla/Westinghouse alternating current. Information technology was a spectacular display of lights and energy, which illuminated the exposition.

Pictures of this great upshot where taken from the following excellent books:

The Book Of The Off-white by Howe Bancroft, Volume One
The Dream City: A Portfolio of Photographic Views past Prof. Halsey C. Ives

Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893
Celebrating 400 years of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

Higher up: Statue of Columbus at the Exhibition.

To a higher place: Administration Edifice, E Front.

In a higher place: The Neat Allis-Corliss Engine

In a higher place: Tesla'due south Polyphase Alternating Current 500 equus caballus ability generator, in Westinghouse Exposition.

To a higher place: Looking East from the Ferris Wheel - the Columbian Exposition,
"The Dream City".

Above: The Heroic Statue of the Commonwealth.

Above: "The Dream Urban center", the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

In a higher place: The Ferris Wheel - the principal wonder of the fair of 1893 was the work of George Washington Gale Ferris, a man born west of Chicago. The Ferris Bicycle was one of the Globe's Wonders.