Tesla (disambiguation)

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Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), was a Serbian-American physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of the radio and the electric motor and generator.

Tesla may also refer to:

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[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Music

  • Tesla (band), an American hard rock music band originating from Sacramento, California
  • Tesla (opera), an opera about Tesla by Tasmanian composer Constantine Koukias

[edit] Fiction

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