Featured Yugoslavia - Nikola Tesla - 5 Dinara & 10 Billion Dinara

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  1. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Hello everyone,

    Nikola Tesla.. was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
    Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. He emigrated in 1884 to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed.
    Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
    After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s.

    My newest paper currency acquisitions with a neat Nikola Sticker -
    Yugoslavia - 5 Dinara & 10 Billion Dinara
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    I work next to the Radio Wave building located at 49 West 27th Street NYC, where Nikola had a laboratory where he conducted experiments
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    There is a neat plaque in front of the building mentioning him.
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    And this is on West 40th Street -
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  3. paddyman98

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    These are some Ebay pics with different serial numbers from what the seller sent me - nt1.PNG nt2.PNG
     
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  4. Kentucky

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    Very interesting guy.
     
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  5. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

    Like you remarked, 'you like to research.'' Like the bio, love the pics. :)
     
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  6. paddyman98

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    A few more pictures from inside the lobby showing Tesla experiments :wideyed:
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    And an old In building mailbox system where mail carriers picked up the mail from decades ago!
     
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    SamuelFred1 I Guess I'm Kind Of a Decent Member at This Point?

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  8. Kentucky

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    I kept looking for the "error" :)
     
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  9. paddyman98

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    Interesting fact - Renowned Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla created one of the world's first wireless remote controls, which he unveiled at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1898.

    Here is a coin made for the creation
    (Not my coin)
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  10. Numiser

    Numiser Well-Known Member

    I have your Radio Wave Building.
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