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the man who invented the modern world, then died broke feeding pigeons.
means A unit of magnetic flux density in physics, the name of the inventor Nikola Tesla, and the brand of electric vehicles named in his honor.
from From the surname of Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), the Serbian-American electrical engineer whose work on alternating current shaped modern power systems. The Serbian surname itself is thought to derive from a word for an adze or a carpenter's tool. In 1960 the international scientific community honored him by attaching his name to the SI unit of magnetic flux density. Decades later, an American car company borrowed the name again — so a man who died nearly penniless now lends his name to both the physics of magnets and a fortune of automobiles.
- alternating current
- His system still powers nearly every outlet on Earth
- pigeon love
- Claimed to romantically love one white pigeon
- no patent fortune
- Tore up a contract worth billions today
- wireless dream
- Tried beaming free electricity through the planet
- namesake car
- Never built a vehicle; got the brand posthumously
tesla model s — electric sedan that became best-selling luxury car globally, over 1.3 million delivered since 2012
tesla gigafactory austin — world's largest ev manufacturing plant by production capacity, opened texas 2023
tesla supercharger network — 50,000+ fast-charging stations globally, enabling cross-country ev travel since 2012