List of things named after Nikola Tesla
This article is a list of things named after the Serbian engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla.
Science and engineering
- Tesla Experimental Station
- Tesla tower
- Tesla coil
- * Tesla coil
- Tesla's oscillator
- Tesla turbine
- Tesla valve
- Tesla's Egg of Columbus
- Tesla (unit), an SI-derived unit for magnetic inductivity
Astronomical bodies
- Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the Moon
- 2244 Tesla, a minor planet
Other
Awards
Biographical works
- My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
- Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
- Tesla - Lightning in His Hand
- The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla
Museums
- Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade
- Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan
- Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe
- Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb
Enterprises and organizations
- Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in former Czechoslovakia
- Tesla, Inc, an American electric car manufacturer
- Nikola Motor Company, an American hybrid truck design company
- Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson
- Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
- Societies:
- Nikola Tesla Science Development Association, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Native Association of Krajišniks "Nikola Tesla", Plandište, Serbia
- Tesla Savings Bank, Zagreb, Croatia
Holidays and events
- Tesla Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia
- National Day of Science in Serbia, July 10
- Nikola Tesla Day in Croatia, 10 July
- Day of Nikola Tesla, Association of Teachers in Vojvodina, 4–10 July.
- Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July.
- Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia
Music
See: Nikola Tesla in popular culturePlaces
- Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport
- TPP Nikola Tesla, the largest power plant in Serbia
- 128 streets in Croatia had been named after Nikola Tesla as of November 2008, making him the eighth most common street name origin in the country.
- Nikola Tesla Boulevard, a portion of Burlington Street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Tesla Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin USA, the block running from North Rosa Road to North Kenosha Drive on the west side of Madison was long misspelled Telsa Terrace due to a sign-painting error in the 1940s or 1950s. The street's name was corrected to Tesla Terrace in 1987, after a class of Michigan third-graders mounted a letter-writing campaign in support of the change.
Schools
- Tesla STEM High School created in 2012 in Redmond, Washington as a choice school with a focus on STEM subjects. The name was chosen by a student vote.