Tesla

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Nikola Tesla (born in Smiljan, Austria-Hungary, 1856–1943), was a Serbo-American physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of the radio and the electric motor and generator.

Tesla may also refer to:

In science
  • Tesla (unit) (symbol T), SI derived unit of magnetic flux density (or magnetic inductivity), named after Nikola Tesla
  • The Tesla coil, a type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high voltage AC electricity
  • TESLA, a proposed Tera-electronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, now merged into the International Linear Collider (ILC) project
  • TESLA, or Timed Efficient Stream Loss-Tolerant Authentication, an authentication method for multi- and broadcast network communications, formalized in RFC 4082.
  • Tesla Fault, a seismically active geological formation in the Livermore Valley, California, USA
  • 2244 Tesla, an asteroid discovered in 1952 and named for Nikola Tesla
In carpentry
  • Tesla, a specialized hammer, used in Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia and Greece
In business
  • Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of electric vehicles
  • Nvidia Tesla, a general purpose computer processor based on GPU-architecture
  • Tesla (company), a former state-owned electro technical conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia
In music
  • Tesla (band), an American hard rock music band originating from Sacramento, California
  • Tesla (opera), an opera about Tesla by Tasmanian composer Constantine Koukias
In fiction
  • Tesla (Bleach), a minor character in the anime and manga series Bleach
In video games
  • Tesla, the name of one of the tables in Zen Pinball
  • Nikola Tesla & You, books which can be found in the video game Fallout 3
  • The Tesla Cannon, a weapon in the video game Fallout 3
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