Power Turned On – Spectator August 26, 1898
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The Tesla Experience
Share This: If you live around, or ever find yourself visiting, Johnson City, Tennessee it is definitely worth visiting the Hands On! Regional Museum. The museum features a very electrifying exhibit, The Tesla Experience! The Tesla Experience is a unique exhibit which features a 250,000 volt Tesla Coil that also plays music. What makes this […]
City Council Approves The Nikola Tesla Boulevard!
Share This: It is official! The Hamilton City Council has approved the plan to rename a portion of Burlington Street in Hamilton, Ontario to Nikola Tesla Boulevard on the condition that we (Nikola Tesla Educational Corporation) raise the necessary signage cost of approximately $140,000. With that task at hand, we went out to the Tesla […]
One Step Closer to the Nikola Tesla Expressway
Share This: On October 6th, 2015 the City of Hamilton Planning Committee endorsed the idea of renaming Burlington Street to the Nikola Tesla Expressway. The Nikola Tesla Educational Corporation, along with the overwhelming support of local community members, proposed the idea and received a positively staggering response from the committee. NTEC would like sincerely thank everyone […]
More Articles in The Spectator!
Share This: Here are two more featured articles in the Hamilton Spectator regarding the recent proposal of renaming Burlington Street to Nikola Tesla Expressway in Hamilton, Ontario. The Spectator’s View: Where the streets have interesting names Main Street a better bet for Tesla naming The City Council of Hamilton is scheduled to hear the proposal […]
How Its Made Dream Cars: Tesla Model S
Share This: Here is an interesting video featuring how the Tesla Model S is built from start to finish. The Model S is a full-size luxury electric vehicle produced by Tesla Motors. It first entered production in 2012 at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, California. Mentioned at the 7:40 mark in the video, the Model […]
NTEC in The Spec!
Share This: This week the Nikola Tesla Educational Corporation was featured in the Hamilton Spectator regarding the initiative to rename a portion of Burlington Street East to Nikola Tesla Expressway in Hamilton, Ontario. Read the article online: Tesla Expressway in TheSpec.com The request will be heard at the Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday, October 6th, […]
Renaming Burlington St. to Nikola Tesla Expressway
Share This: The City of Hamilton was once know as The Ambitious City! It was the industrial heartland of Canada. It was the Steel City of Canada, as Pittsburgh was once the Steel City of America. But, as the steel industry, and other manufacturing, declined, so has the City of Hamilton. It is time for […]
The Tesla SI Unit
Share This: The Tesla (T) is an SI unit of magnetic flux density named after Nikola Tesla. Magnetic flux density is essential the strength of the magnetic field where 1 Tesla is an extremely large field. For perspective, the Earth’s magnetic field at 0° latitude, 0° longitude is 31.869 uT (micro Tesla). Nikola Tesla discovered […]
Silver Medal for Michael Wolfe
Share This: Nikola Tesla Educational Corporation (NTEC) would like to congratulate Michael Wolfe on being the recipient of the Silver Medal at the 2015 Canada-Wide Science Fair in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Michael was recently featured on the NTEC website for being the first recipient of NTEC’s Nikola Tesla Innovation Award at the 2015 Bay Area Science and […]
Get to Know Tesla
Share This: Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest minds and inventors that has ever existed in our world; however, many people still don’t know about the genius behind his work. Below is a short YouTube clip entitled, “Nikola Tesla – The Forgotten Wizard”, which summarizes and highlights his greatest achievements and inventions.
Novak Djokovic Hints At A Tesla Project
Share This: Nikola Tesla has certainly been gaining greater recognition in the past decade for his work which was done over 100 years ago. Many celebrities have been very vocal about their support for Nikola Tesla such as musician Jack White, actress Stana Katic and Tesla Motors / SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; however, one of […]
The War of the Currents
Share This: The War of Currents took place in the late 1880’s between Thomas Edison’s DC and Nikola Tesla’s AC current power systems. Although at the time there was much debate about which system was the optimal for the transmission of electricity, Nikola Tesla’s AC system proved to be superior. In essence, AC has the […]
Top 11 Nikola Tesla Facts
Share This: Nikola Tesla is an astonishing historic figure not only in the engineering and technology world, but also as an individual. There are many great resources available in the public domain to learn about Tesla and be inspired by his ingenuity and graciousness. A few of these resources include Nikola Tesla’s autobiography entitled My Inventions and […]
WiFi Powered Electronics
Share This: A team of researchers from the University of Washington have recently demonstrated battery-free technology. These temperature and camera sensors utilize ambient back-scatter radio signals to operate with wireless power. The researchers have referenced Nikola Tesla’s vision of wireless power as an influence. Click here to read more
Nikola Tesla Documentary
Share This: There are many great documentaries about Nikola Tesla available online. Here is an example of one which highlights Tesla’s free energy concept: Also, check out this promotional video which highlights some of the key characteristics of Nikola Tesla:
NTEC’s First Recipient of the Nikola Tesla Innovation Award
Share This: Nikola Tesla Educational Corporation (NTEC) is proud to announce that the first recipient of the NTEC’s Nikola Tesla Innovation award is Michael Wolfe.
Elon Musk Creates His Own School
Share This: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, recently revealed in an interview with Beijing Television that he started his own school for his children called Ad Astra. The school is relatively small and secretive with only 14 students which are primarily the children of SpaceX employees. “I didn’t see the regular schools […]
Tesla Gigafactory
Share This: Check out video footage of the new Tesla Motors Gigafactory being built near Reno, Nevada. The video was taken from a DJI Phantom 3 Quadcopter and the images are unbelievable! The Tesla Gigafactory is expected to be the largest battery factory in the world with an estimated size of 10 million square feet. […]
American Genius
Share This: National Geographic is launching a new and exciting 8-part mini-series which will showcase some of the greatest rivalries in the history of innovation. The mini-series is entitled American Genius and will feature famous rivalries such as Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates, The Wright Brothers vs. Glenn Curtiss, and Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla […]
1st Annual Membership Meeting
Share This: Please join us for the 1st Annual Membership Meeting of the Nikola Tesla Educational Corporation on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015. Click here for more information.
Tesla Powerwall
Share This: Tesla Motors Inc. recently announced their new line of products: the Powerwall and Powerpack. Along with the new products comes a new division, Tesla Energy. The Powerwall will store energy generated from solar panels, or when utility rates are low to power your home and serve as a backup energy supply. The […]
Harvesting Radio Waves To Power Your iPhone
Share This: Nikola Labs has launched a new iPhone case to power your mobile device wirelessly. Inspired by the work of Nikola Tesla and Heinrich Hertz, the cell phone case converts the wasted energy from radio waves transmitted by your mobile device to useful DC power. The case design uses a proprietary RF to DC […]
Tesla: A Portrait with Masks
Share This: “Tesla: A Portrait with Masks” is a biographical novel by Vladimir Pistalo that follows the arc of Tesla’s life. Find this book on http://www.amazon.com
Today is the 120th Anniversary of Mr. Tesla’s Great Loss!
Share This: Today is the 120th Anniversary of Mr. Tesla’s Great Loss On March 13th, 1895, Nikola Tesla’s 5th Avenue Laboratory burned to the ground in New York City destroying $50,000 (roughly 1.38 million in today’s money) worth of equipment, notes and experiments. It truly was one of Mr. Tesla’s greatest setbacks and it was undoubtedly […]
Amazing, Educational Tesla vs. Edison Board Game on Kick Starter!
Share This: Play as Tesla, Edison, Brush, Maxim or Thomson You can be any one of 5 major players from the Electrical Age who were key inventors, engineers and/or businessmen in the Electrical Age. The game is educational and fun and in need of Kickstarter funding. If you would like to get your […]
3D Printed Wireless Tesla Lamp!
Share This: Student Inspired by Tesla 3D Prints a Wireless Tesla Lamp David Choi was so inspired by Nikola Tesla’s life story and inventions, that he named his cat Tesla! He was especially inspired by Tesla’s use of the Tesla Coil to wirelessly power a light bulb and set out to create a Makerbot 3D […]
Musical Whimsy with a Tesla Coil
Share This: Musical Whimsy with a Tesla Coil Many of our posts to date have been serious posts about Tesla, Science, Education and Community Improvement. There are more whimsical applications of Tesla, though. Some clever folks have discovered that if you adjust the charge from a Tesla Coil in such a way, it can […]
Tesla in Pop Culture: A Double-Edged Sword
Share This: Tesla in Pop Culture: A Double-Edged Sword It wouldn’t be fair to say Nikola Tesla has been treated poorly by North American history books because, for the most part, he’s not been represented poorly; he’s just been ignored altogether.His absence from most textbooks and curricula is especially puzzling given that he invented an Alternating Current Induction […]
Work with Us to Create Awards Like the IEEE Nikola Tesla Award!
Share This: The IEEE Nikola Tesla Award In his autobiography, Tesla wrote: “The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.” […]
NTEC In the News!
Share This: NTEC in the News! Since its inception, NTEC has been making the news in all variety of media (television, print and the Web) and in multiple languages (English and Serbian so far)! The last two weeks have been no exception. NTEC received coverage in two new articles. Both in Serbian. For those interested […]
This Man Will Inspire, Enrage and Charm You!
Share This: Is this Tesla Bust in Your School or University? If it is in your school, it’s thanks to John W. Wagner (above, left photo)! If it’s not in your school, you may just be seeing Mr. Wagner there to talk about it. His journey led a U.S. Senator to take the floor in the name […]
NASA Caught Up to Tesla – Last Year!
Share This: Vertical Take-Off and Landing Drone & Tesla’s 1928 Patent In August of 2014, NASA conducted a test flight of a Drone plane that is rooted in some of the technology Tesla patented in 1928 in U.S. Patent #1,665,114 ! Tesla’s Ideal “Air Flivver”! In January of 1928, Tesla received the last patent of his […]
Nikola Tesla in Mississauga!
Share This: NTEC Presenting in Mississauga NTEC President, Vic Djurdjevic and Tesla (Bob Levnaic) presented the NTEC Vision to a packed house at the Ravna Gora Radio Ball hosted at the Banquet Hall of the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church. The event was held on Saturday, February 21st! It was a wonderful event with good food, libations and dance! […]
Found Tesla at McMaster University!
Share This: Memorial (2006) to Mark Tesla’s 150th Birthday Milan, an Engineering student and active Member of NTEC, shared these photos of a beautiful Tesla Memorial at McMaster University. It is an endemic tree (Picea Omorika) and a plaque that was donated to the University by the McMaster Serbian employees and students. It was given […]
Coming to America : 8 Must-See Sites for Nikola Tesla Fans
Share This: Tesla Site Seeing If you’re a fan of Tesla and happen to be travelling in or across the United States in the near future, Claudia Assis has written a very nice overview of 8 must-see sites for fans of Nikola Tesla! Her article gives a nice over view of the sites, their location […]
Tesla Panel at Harvard Discusses: “The Essential Nikola Tesla: Peace Building Endeavor”
Share This: Summary of the Tesla Panel at Harvard is found at “CLUB UNESCO SORBONNE” An excerpt from that summary below and the image above are taken from that site. “The Tesla book launch event hosted at Harvard Center for European Studies Busch Hall began with introductory lecture « Exploring the legacy of Nikola Tesla through UNESCO […]
Tesla’s Vision of Wireless Power Coming to Life in 2015
Share This: “In 1891, renowned inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla became the first person to introduce inductive charging when he successfully demonstrated the wireless transfer of energy. However, it took over a century for this technology to find its way into mainstream consumer use … In January of this year, the PMA and A4WP announced […]
Found Tesla Resources for Teachers!
Share This: Tesla for Teachers!! Do you know a Teacher looking for helpful, engaging science content for their classroom? Direct them to the PBS “Tesla for Teachers” site where they can find useful content and lessons: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/tt/index.html
Found Tesla at Harvard with UNESCO!!
Share This: UPDATE: 2015-02-22 There is a summary of the talk described below now available. Please see this post for more information We found this rather interesting Discussion Panel about Tesla’s Legacy through UNESCO Networks! Unfortunately, the talk was on February 11th, so we can’t attend, but if anybody has minutes or […]
Hamilton Lights Up the Night with Nikola Tesla!!
Share This: “Light Up the Night with Nikola Tesla”, was the theme of the eighteenth annual fundraising ball held in Hamilton at the Saint Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church. There were 250 revellers in attendance to raise funds that will go toward renovating its community centre’s facilities. Attendees included small to large business owners, engineering, science […]
Novak Djokovic Found Tesla … to be His Primary Inspiration!
Share This: Novak Djokovic was recently asked in an interview how Tesla inspired him. He responded by saying: “Nikola Tesla motivates me to start, because he was such a person with brilliant mind, perhaps the world has ever seen. Based on the fact that what he was doing, and about which I’ve read a lot […]
Magdalena Found Tesla — With Stana Katic!
Share This: Stana Katic loves Tesla! Thanks to Magdalena for “Finding Tesla” in Stana’s Tweets and Posts! Stana Katic (seen above) is star of the TV sho Castle. and was recently spotted by Tesla fan, Magdalena, Tweeting about Nikola Tesla and posting him to her Facebook page. She Tweeted a picture of the Tesla […]
Found Tesla on the Moon: It All Depends on How You “Spin” It!
Share This: — Tom Gale I found Tesla on the moon! Well, his thoughts on the moon anyway… What do a sheep, a goat, the moon, Nikola Tesla and Chinese New Year have in common? NO, it’s not the beginning of a bad joke where Nikola Tesla walks into a bar in Chinatown with a […]
The European city you haven’t thought of visiting – Belgrade
Share This: Nikola Tesla has always been a backroom genius, a scientist’s scientist, a nerd’s nerd. But things are looking up for the Serbian inventor, who died in 1943. It started in 2006, when then up-and-coming filmmaker Christopher Nolan wrote Tesla into The Prestige, and cast David Bowie to play the perfector of radio waves, […]
CBC article —Should Hamilton rename part of Burlington Street after Nikola Tesla?
Share This: Proposal to rename a part of Burlington Street. Voting has settled down, with over 83% in support of the proposal.
CHCH News- NTEC presents to City of Hamilton – September 4, 2014
Share This: View the CHCH-TV news clip reporting on NTEC’s presentation in front of General Issues Committee of City of Hamilton Council – September 4th, 2014.
Treći Nikola Tesla na Nijagari – Vecenje Novosti
Share This: Srpska dijaspora i u Hamiltonu odlučila da podigne spomenik velikom naučniku. Inicijativu naših sunarodnika podržali gradska skupština i gradonačelnik Bob Bratina
The Hamilton Spectator article about NTEC
Share This: The Hamilton Spectator: Raise your glass in a toast(er) to Tesla Article about NTEC was published on July 8, 2014. Scanned article posted below. Click image for readable size
Spomenik Tesli u Hamiltonu
Share This: Vesti: Spomenik Tesli u Hamiltonu Clanak je objavljen 11. jula 2014. Kliknite na sliku za vecu verziju