What is Tesla famous for?

Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.
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What was Tesla's biggest invention?

Probably Tesla's most famous invention and certainly one of his most spectacular, the Tesla coil was a product of his ambition to create a system that could transmit electricity wirelessly.
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What inventions is Tesla responsible for?

Nikola Tesla was a scientist whose inventions include the Tesla coil, alternating-current (AC) electricity, and the discovery of the rotating magnetic field.
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Why is Tesla the greatest invention?

Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.
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Did Tesla build a death ray?

Tesla teased his “teleforce” weapon for decades, saying it could shoot down airplanes from 250 miles away. The press landed on a different name for the invention: death ray. Despite claims to the contrary, Tesla never provided much proof that the death ray worked.
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Nikola Tesla and his incredible inventions



What was Tesla's IQ?

Nikola Tesla

Whenever you think of “Tesla” the luxury car brand may come to mind. However, Nikola Tesla was one of the smartest people ever to walk the planet. Born during a lightning storm in 1856, Tesla had an IQ range from 160 to 310. He's known to invent the Tesla coil and alternating current machinery.
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Who invented the Internet?

Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet.
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Who invented school?

Horace Mann invented school and what is today the United States' modern school system. Horace was born in 1796 in Massachusetts and became the Secretary of Education in Massachusettes where he championed an organized and set curriculum of core knowledge for each student.
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Who invented clock?

Christiaan Huygens, however, is usually credited as the inventor. He determined the mathematical formula that related pendulum length to time (about 99.4 cm or 39.1 inches for the one second movement) and had the first pendulum-driven clock made.
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What are the 4 types of electricity?

Electricity takes different forms: coal, water, solar, wind, nuclear, hydro and solar.
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Who has 400 IQ?

Marilyn vos Savant (/ˌvɒs səˈvɑːnt/; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired.
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What was Einstein's IQ level?

2. Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and philosopher of science whose estimated IQ scores range from 205 to 225 by different measures. He is best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 which has been called the world's most famous equation.
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What is Stephen Hawking's IQ level?

Albert Einstein is believed to have had the same IQ as Professor Stephen Hawking, 160.
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Who invented camera?

3. The photographic camera: While the invention of the camera draws on centuries of contributions, historians generally agree that the first photographic camera was invented in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
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Who discovered pencil?

Using a stylus or silverpoint, it is not very easy to erase a sentence or even one character. This changed with the widespread use of graphite. The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Why is it called battery crime?

In an act of physical violence by one person against another, "assault" is usually paired with battery. In an act of physical violence, assault refers to the act which causes the victim to apprehend imminent physical harm, while battery refers to the actual act causing the physical harm.
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How old is the oldest battery?

A 2,200-year-old clay jar found near Baghdad, Iraq, has been described as the oldest known electric battery in existence.
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What is the oldest battery?

Battery, Baghdad, 250 BCE

The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar with a stopper made of asphalt.
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Who invented walking?

A hominin whose anatomy was so like our own that we can say it walked as we do did not appear in Africa until 1.8 million years ago. Homo erectus was the first to have the long legs and shorter arms that would have made it possible to walk, run and move about Earth's landscapes as we do today.
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