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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Nikola Tesla
| Tesla's final project in life was a weapon that he believed would end war as we know it. What was this weapon called? | Nikola Tesla
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death ray. He called it a death ray, how exciting! It was to be a concentrated beam of electricity that could obliterate enemy planes or missiles. This weapon was never created, although some steps were taken by the U.S. government to help institute its creation. Tesla died in 1943 before more work could be done to examine the utility of this weapon. Some believe that Reagan's Star Wars project was based on Tesla's death ray plans.
| Later in Tesla's life, he became a hermit of sorts. He avoided people and found friendship with a certain creature which is abundant in New York City. Of which common New York creatures was Tesla quite fond? | Nikola Tesla
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pigeons. Tesla could be found on the streets feeding the pigeons. He also took in wounded pigeons and nurtured them back to health.
| Tesla won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1915. True or False? | Nikola Tesla
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f. It was rumored that Tesla would win the prize for physics in that year along with Thomas Edison. But when the winner was announced, it was in fact William Henry Bragg who won. It has also been rumored that Tesla was removed from consideration because he refused to accept the prize alongside Edison. Tesla believed rightly that Edison had done all he could to ruin or sully Tesla's reputation due to Edison's resentment about Tesla's success with alternating current.
| Tesla became a member of New York's high society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One particular actress took an extreme interest in Mr. Tesla. Who was she? | Nikola Tesla
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Sarah Bernhardt. The French actress Sarah Bernhardt was very interested in Mr. Tesla but he found her to be a mere distraction. He was obsessed by his work.
| What natural source (and natural wonder) did Tesla use to power New York City? | Nikola Tesla
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| Eventually Tesla, on his own, created a number of patents for various motors and other equipment related to electricity. What fellow inventor and entrepreneur agreed to pay Tesla a million dollars for his collective patents? | Nikola Tesla
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| This individual paid Tesla 50,000 dollars for his work on sources of electricity. True or False? | Nikola Tesla
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f. Edison agreed to pay Tesla 50,000 dollars for his work, but when Tesla came to Edison to collect some of this money, Edison refused to pay him. Tesla left angrily and vowed to himself that he would continue his work on alternating current.
| Tesla emigrated to the United States in 1884. There he found work with what famous American individual? | Nikola Tesla
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| Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in what is now which country? | Nikola Tesla
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130 feet. Although people have tried to best Tesla's record it still stands today.
| At the 1893 Chicago's World Fair, Tesla's alternating current system was used to power the entire exhibition. What U.S. President pushed the button to turn on the electricity? | Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Inventor
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Grover Cleveland. The fair was a huge success which quickly caused the use of AC power to spread throughout the United States.
t. This is just one of the many inventions Tesla gets little or no credit for inventing.
His United States citizenship papers. I guess he felt that his citizenship meant more than his degrees or the patents on his inventions.
25 miles. Being able to send this electricity out for free caused his financial backers to pull their funding, for obvious reasons, so we all still have to use the conventional plug.
| In 1943, the Supreme Court of the United States granted full patent rights to Nikola Tesla for the invention of the radio, superseding and nullifying any prior claim by this inventor? | Nikola Tesla: The Forgotten Inventor
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Guglielmo Marconi. Although it's been over 60 years since their decision, all the history books, for some reason, still give all the credit to Marconi.
True. Tesla had a letter of recomendation from Charles Batchelor stating that he knew of two great men, Thomas Edison and the man that stands before you, Nikola Tesla.
1884. Tesla arrived in America with only 4 cents and quickly started working for Thomas Edison.
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