Tesla

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

Tesla may also refer to:

In science

• Tesla (unit) (symbol T), SI derived unit of magnetic flux density (or magnetic inductivity), named after Nikola Tesla
• 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

In carpentry

• Tesla (тесла) is a specialized hammer, used in Bulgaria and Greece.

In 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

In music

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

In fiction

• Tesla (Bleach), a minor character in the anime and manga series Bleach

In video games

• Tesla is the name of one of the tables in Zen Pinball.
• Nikola Tesla & You are books which can be found in the video game Fallout 3.
• The Tesla Cannon is a weapon in the video game Fallout 3.
• The Tesla coil appears as a defense mechanism in the video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.

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