Tesla

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Tesla may refer to:

In science:

  • Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer
  • Tesla (unit) (symbol T), SI derived unit of magnetic flux density (or magnetic inductivity), named after Nikola Tesla
  • Tesla coil, a category of disruptive discharge coils invented by Nikola Tesla
  • Tesla turbine, a category of turbines operated by way of fluid adhesion instead of particle reaction or impact
  • Wireless energy transfer (the "Tesla effect"), the process where electrical energy is transmitted without connecting wires
  • The proposed Tera-electronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (TESLA), now merged into the International Linear Collider (ILC) project
  • 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 commerce:

  • Tesla (company), a former state-owned electro technical conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia
  • Ericsson Nikola Tesla, the Croatian subsidiary of the telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson
  • NVIDIA Tesla, a GPU product from NVIDIA
  • Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley-based electric vehicle manufacturer
    • Tesla Roadster, a high-performance, all-electric sports car; manufactured by Tesla Motors

In music:

  • Tesla (band), an American hard rock music band originating from Sacramento, California
  • "Tesla Girls", a single by British pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)
  • Tesla (album), an industrial-experimental album by Synthesis Machine

In fiction:

Other: