List of things named after Nikola Tesla explained

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

Other

Awards

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

Biographical works

• • • 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

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Schmadel, Lutz D. . Lutz D. Schmadel . . 2003 . [{{GBurl|eHv1CAAAQBAJ|pg=PA290}} Dictionary of minor planet names ]. 290 . Springer . 978-3-540-00238-3.
2. Web site: Vujovic . Dr. Ljubo . Tesla Biography - Nikola Tesla The Genius Who Lit The World . Tesla Memorial Society of New York . 30 April 2012.
3. Web site: Memory of the World - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization . . 10 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110526211250/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/homepage . 26 May 2011 . dead.
4. Web site: Tesla Memorial Society of New York Homepage . TeslaSociety.com . 2 November 2016.
5. Web site: Why the Name "Tesla?" . Tesla Motors . 10 June 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071016044752/http://www.teslamotors.com/learn_more/why_tesla.php . 16 October 2007.
6. Ringle . Hayley . 19 October 2018 . Behind the deal: How Nikola Motor steered its trucking technology to Arizona . Phoenix Business Journal . 7 January 2019.
7. Web site: Company Overview of Nikola Motor Company . Bloomberg . 20 May 2018.
8. Book: Margerison, Charles . 2011 . [{{GBurl|EUQW1p4tYgkC|pg=PA163}} Amazing Scientists: Inspirational Stories ]. 163 . Amazing People Club . 978-1-921-75240-7.
9. Book: Seifer, Marc J. . Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla: biography of a genius . 2001 . Citadel . 978-0-8065-1960-9 . 464.
10. Web site: Nikola Tesla Science Development Association . NikolaTesla.io.ua . 15 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100613043036/http://nikolatesla.io.ua/ . 13 June 2010 . dead.
11. Web site: Native Association of Krajišniks "Nikola Tesla" - Plandište . ZuKNikolaTesla.org . 15 January 2017.
12. https://thebanks.eu/banks/9843 On March 30, 2018 bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against Tesla Štedna Banka
13. Web site: 36th International Festival of Innovations, Knowledge and Creativity – Tesla Fest . Association of Inventors of Vojvodina.
14. Web site: National Day of Nikola Tesla - Day of Science, Technology and Innovation, 10 July . . 13 July 2015.
15. Web site: Dan Nikole Tesle . sr . Vojvodina Online . https://web.archive.org/web/20150315185617/http://vojvodinaonline.com/manifestacije/dan-nikole-tesle-dan-nauke-u-srbiji-novi-sad/?lang=SR . March 15, 2015.
16. Web site: Radulovic . Bojan . Srpska škola . www.SrpskaSkola.ca . 15 January 2017 . 3 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161103122530/http://www.srpskaskola.ca/ . dead .
17. Web site: Nikola Tesla EV Rally – Croatia 2015 – Electric Rally – Mixture of Excellence and Technology . NikolaTeslaEVRally.com.hr . Kilovat Media . 28 April 2015.
18. Web site: Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG) . Airport-Desk.com . 29 November 2010.
19. Web site: Letica . Slaven . Slaven Letica . Bach . Nenad . Nenad Bach . 29 November 2008 . If Streets Could Talk. Kad bi ulice imale dar govora. . . 1847-3911 . 31 December 2014.
20. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/5-reasons-why-hamilton-is-renaming-part-of-burlington-st-after-nikola-tesla-1.3654375
21. Web site: 9 May 2010 . Madison's neighborhood secrets: West; Isthmus Publishing . Red Card Media . 14 January 2020.
22. Web site: The Origins of Some Madison, Wisconsin, Street Names . HistoricMadison.org . 14 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130712051608/http://www.historicmadison.org/Madison's%20Past/Street%20Names/PartVII.html . 12 July 2013 . dead.
23. News: 21 March 2014 . STEM High School formally named after Nikola Tesla . . 6 January 2017.