Hystory and designs - Nikola Tesla

Tesla is one of the only 14 scientists in the world after whom a physical unit within the internationally recognized system has been named. In this he is among the ranks of Newton, Pascal, Ohm, Coulomb, Volta, Joule, Amper, Faraday, Watt, Weber, Henry, Kelvin and Hertz. Tesla is a unit of measure for an electromagnetic field; its designation being T. He was also the youngest in that elite group (born in 1856), while the oldest was Pascal (born 1623).

Tesla is also among the meritorious of this world after whom astronomers named Lunar mountains and craters (43 km diameter), and in this area he is in the company of another Croatian great, Ruđer Bošković, and also alongside Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Julius Cesar. An asteroid was also named after Tesla. In the USA there is a town called Tesla, while in Canada they have named a lake after him.

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