Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla

• 9th July 1856 - 7th January 1943

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Teslas Inventions

• Telephone repeater
• Rotating magnetic field principle
• Induction motor
• Tesla coil
• A lot of AC machinery
• The radio
• Supposedly a cosmic death ray

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Tesla and the radio

• It is believed that Tesla invented the radio
  originally
• He was ready to transmit signals in 1895, but
  fire destroyed his work

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Tesla and the radio

• Tesla patented his invention in 1900. Marconi was
  therefore refused patents for 4 years, but the US
  supreme court ruled in 1904 that Marconi could
  use it.
• This was believed to be because of Marconis
  financial backing

EVIL
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Tesla and the radio

• Tesla died in 1943, and just a few months later,
  the courts ruled that Tesla had held the patent
  after all, because Marconi was suing the US
  government

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COSMIC DEATH RAY!!!

• It is rumoured that Tesla invented a cosmic death
  ray that could destroy 500,000 acres of land.
• The Tunguska Incident was supposedly its only test

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Possible effect on Wales of death ray
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Tesla coil

• This created brief pulses of extremely high
  voltage from an input voltage, seen as large
  bursts of electricity
• He patented it as a lighting system

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Teslas end

• Tesla died in 1943 a poor man, but people all
  over the world now listen to the radio,
  originally based on seven of his patents
• He wasnt killed by his death ray, because he
  destroyed it

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The end