Honours
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.
Tesla published works in the field of physics in which he presented original ideas which later came to be realized. To honour the 100th anniversary of his birth the International Electrotechnical Commission gave his name to the unit for electromagnetic induction – Tesla (T).
In the Czech Republic a bulb factory carries his name, and in Croatia is the company Nikola Tesla- Ericsson which is primarily involved in the field of telephony. There are companies bearing his name in many other countries: the USA, Great Britain, Russia and Germany.
Tesla was also the inspiration to Konstantin Koukias for his opera “Tesla: the light in his hands”, to a soft metal band from Sacramento which took his name, and as the theme for the first computer, i.e. electronic opera.
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