Tesla

Tesla may refer to:

People

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

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
• Tesla, a character in the Clive Barker novels The Great and Secret Show and Everville

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

Places

• Tesla, California, former coal mining town in Corral Hollow, California, United States

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, or Timed Efficient Stream Loss-Tolerant Authentication, an authentication method for multi- and broadcast network communications, formalized in RFC 4082.
• Tesla coil, a type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high voltage AC electricity
• Tesla Fault, a seismically active geological formation in the Livermore Valley, California, USA