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Nikola_Tesla

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before emigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was involved in a corporate alternating current/direct current "War of Currents" as well as various patent battles.

Question: What did Tesla do before 1884?

Question: what does AC stand for?

Question: What did Tesla invent that used Alternating Current?

Question: What was the war of currents about

Question: In addition to Thomas Edison, what other electrical pioneer did Tesla work for

Question: Whom did Tesla learn from before his transformer was licensed?

Question: What type of work did Tesla perform when he went to work as an independent

Question: Name one patent held by Tesla

Question: Before working for Thomas Edison, what fields did Tesla work in

Question: Tesla worked in New York City prior to working for whom?

Question: Whom did Tesla work for after his time in New York City?
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In late 1886 Tesla met Alfred S. Brown, a Western Union superintendent, and New York attorney Charles F. Peck. The two men were experienced in setting up companies and promoting inventions and patents for financial gain. Based on Tesla's patents and other ideas they agreed to back him financially and handle his patents. Together in April 1887 they formed the Tesla Electric Company with an agreement that profits from generated patents would go ⅓ to Tesla, ⅓ to Peck and Brown, and ⅓ to fund development. They set up a laboratory for Tesla at 89 Liberty Street in Manhattan where he worked on improving and developing new types of electric motors, generators and other devices.

Question: Tesla was supported by people who would?

Question: What were the last names of the two people Tesla met in late 1886?

Question: What were some of the monetary gains used for from the Tesla Electric Company?

Question: What was the name of the person Tesla met who had knowledge of the law?

Question: The person who received the most money wouldn't be?

Question: Tesla was acquantied with two what?

Question: What state was Tesla's laboratory arranged?

Question: What were the last names of the two people who had previous involvement with helping advance inventions and patents in order to create a monetary gain?
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In 1900, Tesla was granted patents for a "system of transmitting electrical energy" and "an electrical transmitter." When Guglielmo Marconi made his famous first-ever transatlantic radio transmission in 1901, Tesla quipped that it was done with 17 Tesla patents, though there is little to support this claim. This was the beginning of years of patent battles over radio with Tesla's patents being upheld in 1903, followed by a reverse decision in favor of Marconi in 1904. In 1943, a Supreme Court of the United States decision restored the prior patents of Tesla, Oliver Lodge, and John Stone. The court declared that their decision had no bearing on Marconi's claim as the first to achieve radio transmission, just that since Marconi's claim to certain patents were questionable, he could not claim infringement on those same patents (there are claims the high court was trying to nullify a World War I claim against the U.S. government by the Marconi Company via simply restoring Tesla's prior patent).

Question: What is it called to use someone's patent?

Question: What happened in the second year of the previous century?

Question: Who decided that Telsa lost in court?

Question: What did Telsa conflict with his rival over?
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On 30 July 1891, at the age of 35, Tesla became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and established his South Fifth Avenue laboratory, and later another at 46 E. Houston Street, in New York. He lit electric lamps wirelessly at both locations, demonstrating the potential of wireless power transmission. In the same year, he patented the Tesla coil.

Question: Where was his second lab?

Question: Where did Tesla light the lamps?

Question: Which location was the second to get electric lamps, 5th Avenue or Houston Street?

Question: What did Tesla apply for rights to?

Question: How do we know that Tesla's experiments are still relevant today?

Question: What did Tesla build in New York?

Question: If we were looking for the name of a throughfare named after a city in Texas, what would it be?

Question: What United States territory were Tesla's labs located?

Question: Where was the second office located, if we are looking for an actual city?

Question: If we were looking for one specific experiment that holds a lot of promise for the future, what would it be?

Question: How do we know that Tesla was not a citizen of the United States?

Question: What one big event happened to Tesla when he was thirty-five?

Question: Which invention relied on wireless transmission, the electric lamp or the Tesla coil?
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During his second year of study at Graz, Tesla developed a passion for (and became very proficient at) billiards, chess and card-playing, sometimes spending more than 48 hours in a stretch at a gaming table.:43, 301 On one occasion at his laboratory, Tesla worked for a period of 84 hours without sleep or rest.:208 Kenneth Swezey, a journalist whom Tesla had befriended, confirmed that Tesla rarely slept. Swezey recalled one morning when Tesla called him at 3 a.m.: "I was sleeping in my room like one dead ... Suddenly, the telephone ring awakened me ... [Tesla] spoke animatedly, with pauses, [as he] ... work[ed] out a problem, comparing one theory to another, commenting; and when he felt he had arrived at the solution, he suddenly closed the telephone."

Question: What did Tesla's friend Swezey do for a living?

Question: What did Tesla do, at times, when playing cards?

Question: How did Tesla like to spend his time other than billiards?

Question: What location was it reported where Tesla spent the longest time awake, his laboratory or a gaming table?

Question: What did Tesla do one time at his lab that was not good for his health?

Question: What bit of insight did Tesla's friend give about him?

Question: How many 60 minute intervals was the longest reported where Tesla remained awake?

Question: What was Swezey's friend's name?

Question: What point was Tesla at school when he realized how much he loved playing games?

Question: After Tesla's first year at Graz, what was the location where Tesla spent long hours at other than his laboratory?
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Tesla noted the hazards of working with his circuit and single-node X-ray-producing devices. In his many notes on the early investigation of this phenomenon, he attributed the skin damage to various causes. He believed early on that damage to the skin was not caused by the Roentgen rays, but by the ozone generated in contact with the skin, and to a lesser extent, by nitrous acid. Tesla incorrectly believed that X-rays were longitudinal waves, such as those produced in waves in plasmas. These plasma waves can occur in force-free magnetic fields.

Question: Which of the following did Tesla not blame for skin damager: Roentgen rays, nitrous acid or ozone?

Question: Which of the following is not a type of X-ray producing device: circuit, ozone, or single-node?

Question: Which of the following is not a type of wave: longitudinal, plasma or nitrous?
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There have been subsequent claims by Tesla biographers that Edison and Tesla were the original recipients and that neither was given the award because of their animosity toward each other; that each sought to minimize the other's achievements and right to win the award; that both refused ever to accept the award if the other received it first; that both rejected any possibility of sharing it; and even that a wealthy Edison refused it to keep Tesla from getting the $20,000 prize money.:245

Question: Of Edison and Tesla, which one was being stubborn?

Question: What effect did each company want to have on the achievements of the other?

Question: Of the pair, who had more money?

Question: What stood in the way of Tesla getting the acknowledgement they deserved?

Question: Who, between Tesla and Edison, is NOT rumored to have refused the award out of keeping the other from prize money?

Question: What stood in the way of Edison getting the acknowledgement they deserve?

Question: Who gave the information regarding the feud?

Question: What did Tesla and Edison's relationship harbor around this time?

Question: Considering the evidence, in favor of whom would the claims made be biased?

Question: Which company could use the money more?
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In 1874, Tesla evaded being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in Smiljan by running away to Tomingaj, near Gračac. There, he explored the mountains in hunter's garb. Tesla said that this contact with nature made him stronger, both physically and mentally. He read many books while in Tomingaj, and later said that Mark Twain's works had helped him to miraculously recover from his earlier illness.

Question: What is the name of the third town mentioned in the text?

Question: What did Tesla do beside exploring mountains in Tomingaj?

Question: Who got better in Tomingaj?

Question: What is the first town mentioned int he text?

Question: What did Tesla wear in nature?

Question: What was Tesla's previous problem?

Question: What did Tesla do in 1874?

Question: Where did Tesla walked around while in Tomingaj?

Question: How did Tesla change from exploring the mountains?

Question: What did Tesla dislike?

Question: His time in the mountains inproved Tesla how?

Question: The books improved Tesla how?

Question: Who read Mark Twain?

Question: Where were the mountains that Tesla explored?
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In 1870, Tesla moved to Karlovac, to attend school at the Higher Real Gymnasium, where he was profoundly influenced by a math teacher Martin Sekulić.:32 The classes were held in German, as it was a school within the Austro-Hungarian Military Frontier. Tesla was able to perform integral calculus in his head, which prompted his teachers to believe that he was cheating. He finished a four-year term in three years, graduating in 1873.:33

Question: The place that employs a math teacher is a?

Question: What was the result of Tesla's relocation?

Question: What prompted Tesla to relocate?

Question: How long did it take Tesla to complete the school term at the Higher Real Gymnasium school?

Question: What did Tesla achieve in a three year period?

Question: What was Tesla seeking when he moved?

Question: Who did Tesla receive classes in German from?
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In 1882, Tesla began working for the Continental Edison Company in France, designing and making improvements to electrical equipment. In June 1884, he relocated to New York City:57–60 where he was hired by Thomas Edison to work at his Edison Machine Works on Manhattan's lower east side. Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering and quickly progressed to solving more difficult problems.

Question: What state did Tesla perform simple electrical engineering jobs?

Question: Where did Tesla work later, Edison Machine Works or Continental Edison Company?

Question: In which area of New York did Thomas Edison have his business?

Question: In which year did Tesla leave France?

Question: Where did Tesla live first, France or New York City?

Question: Where did Tesla live two years before moving to New York City?

Question: What state is Edison Machine Works located?

Question: What did Edison do in terms of Tesla?

Question: What was it referred to when Tesla moved to NY?
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In 1893 Richard Dean Adams, who headed up the Niagara Falls Cataract Construction Company sought Tesla's opinion on what system would be best to transmit power generated at the falls. Over several years there had been a series of proposals and open competitions on how best to utilize power generated by the falls with many systems being proposed by several US and European companies including two-phase and three-phase AC, high-voltage DC, and even compressed air. Adams pumped Tesla for information about the current state of all the competing systems. Tesla advised Adams that a two-phased system would be the most reliable and that there was a Westinghouse system to light incandescent bulbs using two-phase alternating current. Based on Tesla's advice and Westinghouse's demonstration that they could build a complete AC system at the Columbian Exposition, a contract for building a two-phase AC generating system at the Niagara Falls was awarded to Westinghouse Electric. A further contract to build the AC distribution system was awarded to General Electric.

Question: Whose demonstration, between Tesla and Westinghouse, was the complete AC build based on?

Question: what did the last company mentioned receive?

Question: what is the last company mentioned?

Question: Who did Tesla recommend to Adams?

Question: what is the first time period mentioned?

Question: Whose advice, between Tesla and Adams, was the complete AC system NOT based on?

Question: What does AC stand for?

Question: What other systems were thought to work besides the one Tesla advised would be the most reliable?

Question: Who pumped whom for information about the current state of all the competing systems?

Question: what water feature was first mentioned?

Question: what is the second to last company mentioned?
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In 1893, George Westinghouse won the bid to light the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago with alternating current, beating out a General Electric bid by one million dollars. This World's Fair devoted a building to electrical exhibits. It was a key event in the history of AC power, as Westinghouse demonstrated the safety, reliability, and efficiency of a fully integrated alternating current system to the American public. At the Columbian Exposition, under a banner announcing the "Tesla Polyphase System", Tesla demonstrated a series of electrical effects previously performed throughout America and Europe,:76 included using high-voltage, high-frequency alternating current to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp.:79 An observer noted:

Question: What were Westinghouse and General Electric bidding for?

Question: What did Westinghouse want to win?

Question: What was the bid for?

Question: How did Westinghouse win the bid?

Question: Alternating current can also be described as?

Question: Who demonstrated their work in America alone?

Question: What was General Electric bidding to do?

Question: Money aside, how did Westinghouse win the bid?
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The Colorado experiments had prepared Tesla for the establishment of the trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility known as Wardenclyffe near Shoreham, Long Island.

Question: What name used in this paragraph is also the name of an ocean?

Question: Chronologically, which action described in this paragraph comes second?

Question: Where were the events that helped produce the facility known as Wardenclyffe?

Question: What did Tesla do after the Colorado experiments?

Question: What state mentioned in this paragraph has in its name a word that means land surrounded by water?

Question: Shoreham isn't in?
Nikola_Tesla

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Question: What did Tesla do other than inventor, futurist, mechanical engineer,  and physicist?

Question: What did Tesla do other than futurist, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and inventor?

Question: What did Tesla do other than futurist, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist?

Question: In what year did Tesla first come into existence?

Question: In what year did Tesla cease to exist?

Question: When was Nikola Tesla born?

Question: What did Tesla do other than inventor, futurist, electrical engineer,  and physicist?

Question: How was Tesla's name spelled in Cyrillic?

Question: What work relates to coming up with ideas?
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Later in life, Tesla made claims concerning a "teleforce" weapon after studying the Van de Graaff generator. The press variably referred to it as a "peace ray" or death ray. Tesla described the weapon as capable of being used against ground-based infantry or for anti-aircraft purposes.

Question: What should pilots in Tesla's time have feared?

Question: Telsa's proposed device was intended to be used as a weapon, against what kind of millitary materiel?

Question: What did Tesla invent after seeing a generator?

Question: What did Van de Graaff make that Tesla studied?

Question: Who called the weapon a peace ray?

Question: When did Tesla begin talking about his weapon?

Question: Who invented the name death ray?

Question: What was the teleforce weapon?

Question: The surface of the Earth that individuals walk on is called what?

Question: What name added to Tesla's teleforce or ray weapon would not sound more pleasant to a listener?

Question: Who called the weapon a death ray?

Question: What was Teslas invention?
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Tesla invented a steam-powered mechanical oscillator—Tesla's oscillator. While experimenting with mechanical oscillators at his Houston Street lab, Tesla allegedly generated a resonance of several buildings. As the speed grew, it is said that the machine oscillated at the resonance frequency of his own building and, belatedly realizing the danger, he was forced to use a sledge hammer to terminate the experiment, just as the police arrived.:162–164 In February 1912, an article—"Nikola Tesla, Dreamer" by Allan L. Benson—was published in World Today, in which an artist's illustration appears showing the entire earth cracking in half with the caption, "Tesla claims that in a few weeks he could set the earth's crust into such a state of vibration that it would rise and fall hundreds of feet and practically destroy civilization. A continuation of this process would, he says, eventually split the earth in two."

Question: What did Benson write?

Question: What did the local authorities do as Tesla was terminating the experiment?

Question: Which happened first: Tesla using his sledge hammer or the police arriving to his lab?

Question: How did Tesla stop the oscillator?

Question: What did Tesla think would happen if he continued using his oscillator?

Question: What caused Tesla to sledge hammer his oscillator?

Question: What did Tesla have to destroy with his sledge hammer?

Question: What was seen in addition to Benson's article in World Today?
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Tesla read many works, memorizing complete books, and supposedly possessed a photographic memory.:33 He was a polyglot, speaking eight languages: Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin.:282 Tesla related in his autobiography that he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. During his early life, Tesla was repeatedly stricken with illness. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions.:33 Often, the visions were linked to a word or idea he might have come across; at other times they would provide the solution to a particular problem he had encountered. Just by hearing the name of an item, he would be able to envision it in realistic detail.:33 Tesla would visualize an invention in his mind with extreme precision, including all dimensions, before moving to the construction stage, a technique sometimes known as picture thinking. He typically did not make drawings by hand but worked from memory. Beginning in his childhood, Tesla had frequent flashbacks to events that had happened previously in his life.:33

Question: What tortured Tesla most when he was a boy?

Question: Why was he able to memorize books?

Question: What would usually happen before he found answers to his problems?

Question: How did Tesla's eye problem somehow help him?

Question: What visual and mental ability did Tesla possess?

Question: What was the dead language that Tesla spoke?
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Tesla served as a vice president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the forerunner (along with the Institute of Radio Engineers) of the modern-day IEEE, from 1892 to 1894.

Question: What office did Tesla hold?

Question: What is the second kind of engineers mentioned in the text?

Question: What other type of engineering was a part of the IEEE?

Question: What does IEEE cover beside electrical engineers?

Question: Together with which entity did the Institute of Radio Engineers serve similar functions as IEEE?

Question: What was Tesla's profession?

Question: What is IEEE equivalent to in 1892?

Question: What was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers position in the IEEE?

Question: When does IEEE exist?

Question: What professional organization could Tesla not be part of?

Question: What profession does IEEE cover?

Question: What did the Institute of Radio Engineers belong to?

Question: Who does IEEE serve?
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For exercise, Tesla walked between 8 to 10 miles per day. He squished his toes one hundred times for each foot every night, saying that it stimulated his brain cells.

Question: When did Tesla stimulate his brain?

Question: Squishing what body part stimulated Tesla's brain?

Question: What is walking?

Question: Who squished Tesla's toes?

Question: Why would Tesla be considered an active man?

Question: How did Tesla stay in shape?

Question: How did Tesla protect his health

Question: What indicates that Tesla cared about his physical health?

Question: What would Tesla traverse that would make him the most tired?

Question: What is rather odd as an exercise?

Question: When compared, what activity would take the most amount of time?

Question: When did Tesla squish his toes?

Question: What did Tesla consider to be helpful to his calculations?

Question: Of the activities he practiced, which one do most people participate in?

Question: For what reason might Tesla's toes be sore in the morning?
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Near the end of his life, Tesla walked to the park every day to feed the pigeons and even brought injured ones into his hotel room to nurse back to health. He said that he had been visited by a specific injured white pigeon daily. Tesla spent over $2,000, including building a device that comfortably supported her so her bones could heal, to fix her broken wing and leg. Tesla stated,

Question: Why did Tesla give up some of his wealth?

Question: What did Tesla like to do with the animals nicknamed "rats with wings?"

Question: Where did Tesla care for the inured white pigeon?

Question: How did Telsa get to the location of the injured pigeons?

Question: How did Tesla use his skills to help the avian creature he loved?

Question: The white creature that frequentlly visited Telsa had injuries to which body parts?

Question: How did Tesla travel to visit the pigeons?