Tesla

Tesla most commonly refers to:

• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), a Croatian-born Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
• Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.

Tesla may also refer to:

Companies and organizations

• Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan, his birthplace, Croatia
• Tesla (Czechoslovak company), a former state-owned conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia
• Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing, a former company in Rahway, New Jersey, US
• Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, a proposed science museum in New York, US
• Nikola Tesla Corporation, a former Yugoslavian company, now the Croatian company Ericsson Nikola Tesla
• Nikola Tesla Museum, a science museum in Belgrade, Serbia

Media and entertainment

• Tesla (2016 film), a 2016 film by David Grubin
• Tesla (2020 film), a 2020 film by Michael Almereyda
• Tesla (band), an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California in late 1981
• Tesla - Lightning in His Hand, an opera by Constantine Koukias
• "Tesla", a song on the 2013 album Nanobots by They Might Be Giants

Places

• Tesla, a former coal mining town in Corral Hollow, California, US
• Tesla, West Virginia, US
• Tesla Fault, a geological formation in the Diablo Range, California, US
• Tesla River, Romania

Space

• 2244 Tesla, an asteroid discovered in 1952
• Tesla (crater), a lunar crater

Science and technology

• Tesla (microarchitecture), a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia
• Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI derived unit of magnetic flux density
• Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, a proposed particle collider, now part of the International Linear Collider project
• Tesla valve, a fixed-geometry passive check valve
• Nvidia Tesla, a brand of GPGPU cards with the Tesla microarchitecture
• Tesla coil, a type of resonant transformer circuit

See also

• List of things named after Nikola Tesla
• List of Nikola Tesla patents
• Nikola Tesla (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Tesla
• All pages with titles beginning with Tesla
• Tesler, a surname
• TSLAQ, a loose collective critical of Tesla