Tesla

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Tesla may refer to:

[edit] People

  • Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), physicist, electrical engineer and inventor

[edit] Arts and music

  • Tesla (band), an American hard rock music band originating from Sacramento, California
  • Tesla (Bleach), a minor character in the anime and manga series Bleach
  • Tesla (opera), an opera about Nikola Tesla by Tasmanian composer Constantine Koukias

[edit] Business and manufacturing

  • Nvidia Tesla, a brand of general purpose graphic processing units by Nvidia
  • Tesla (company), a former state-owned electrical/technical conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia
  • Tesla Motors, a manufacturer of electric cars based in Palo Alto, California
    • Tesla Roadster, a battery powered sports car produced by Tesla Motors

[edit] Places

[edit] Science

  • 2244 Tesla, an asteroid discovered in 1952 and named for Nikola Tesla
  • Tesla (unit) (symbol T), SI derived unit of magnetic flux density (or magnetic inductivity), named after Nikola Tesla
  • TESLA, a proposed Tera-electronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, now merged into the International Linear Collider (ILC) project
  • Tesla coil, a type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high voltage AC electricity
  • Tesla Fault, a seismically active geological formation in Livermore Valley, California, USA
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