Early Life
Nikola Tesla's birthday was a special hint at his future because this was happening at the time he was born.
What is a thunder storm?
(lightning storm, electricity storm)
Nikola Tesla was the first to harness the power of a waterfall with this invention.
What is a hydroelectric power plant?
The company that Nikola Tesla got his big break working for.
What is the Continental Edison Company?
This invention created by Nikola Tesla uses a glass vacuum tube with high-frequency electric currents.
What is the Plasma Ball?
The job held by Nikola Tesla's father.
What is an Orthodox Priest?
Nikola Tesla was the first to invent this source of power and harness it.
What is Alternating Current? (AC Motor)
The type of electrical current Nikola Tesla invented to rival Edison's.
What is the alternating current?
A unique check valve that had no moving parts and allowed a fluid to flow towards a preferred direction.
What is the Tesla Valve?
The number of older siblings Nikola Tesla had.
What is 3?
(Dane, Milka, and Angelina)
This invention used radioactive waves to create a silhouette of bones.
What is the Shadowgraph? (X-Rays)
The holiday on which Nikola Tesla died.
What is Orthodox Christmas?
Used his tesla coil invention to generate electricity that powers this specifically.
What is Fluorescent Lighting?
The month Nikola Tesla was born in.
What is June?
This famous invention created by Tesla produced high-frequency alternating current.
What is The Tesla Coil?
Supposedly Nikola Tesla's last invention. All records of it were removed from his home immediatley following his death.
What is the death ray?
A steam powered electric generator that Tesla claimed caused an earthquake in NYC.
What is Tesla's Oscillator? (Tesla's Earthquake Machine)
An item invented by Nikoa Tesla during his time at a telephone company to improve call volume.
What is the amplifier?
Nikola Tesla invented this by using his Tesla Coil to transmit and receive signals.
What is radio transmission?
Name of one of the universities Nikola Tesla Studied at.
What is the Polytechnic Institute at Graz, Austria?
OR
What is the University of Prague?
Invented a radio activated switch using metal oxide powder that becomes conductive in an electromagnetic field.