List of things named after Nikola Tesla



This article is a list of things named after the Serbian engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla.

Science and engineering

 * Tesla Experimental Station
 * Tesla tower
 * Tesla coil
 * Singing Tesla coil
 * Tesla's oscillator
 * Tesla turbine
 * Tesla valve
 * Tesla's Egg of Columbus
 * Tesla (unit), an SI-derived unit for magnetic inductivity

Astronomical bodies

 * Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the Moon
 * 2244 Tesla, a minor planet

Awards

 * The Nikola Tesla Award
 * Nikola Tesla Satellite Award

Biographical works

 * My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
 * Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
 * Tesla - Lightning in His Hand
 * The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
 * The Secret of Nikola Tesla

Museums

 * Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade (since 1952)
 * Nikola Tesla Memorial Center in Smiljan (since 1956)
 * Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (since 2013)
 * Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb (since 2015)

Enterprises and organizations

 * Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in former Czechoslovakia
 * Tesla, Inc, an American electric car manufacturer
 * Nikola Motor Company, an American hybrid truck design company
 * Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson
 * Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
 * Societies:
 * Tesla Memorial Society (founded 1979), originally Lackawanna, New York, currently Ridgewood, Queens, New York
 * International Tesla Society (founded 1984), Colorado Springs


 * Nikola Tesla Science Development Association, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * Native Association of Krajišniks "Nikola Tesla", Plandište, Serbia
 * Tesla Savings Bank, Zagreb, Croatia

Holidays and events

 * Tesla Fest, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * National Day of Science in Serbia, July 10
 * Nikola Tesla Day in Croatia, 10 July
 * Day of Nikola Tesla, Association of Teachers in Vojvodina, 4–10 July.
 * Day of Nikola Tesla, Niagara Falls, 10 July.
 * Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia

Music
See: Nikola Tesla in popular culture

Places

 * Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)
 * TPP Nikola Tesla, the largest power plant in Serbia
 * 128 streets in Croatia had been named after Nikola Tesla as of November 2008, making him the eighth most common street name origin in the country.
 * Nikola Tesla Boulevard, a portion of Burlington Street in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
 * Tesla Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin USA, the block running from North Rosa Road to North Kenosha Drive on the west side of Madison was long misspelled Telsa Terrace due to a sign-painting error in the 1940s or 1950s. The street's name was corrected to Tesla Terrace in 1987, after a class of Michigan third-graders mounted a letter-writing campaign in support of the change.

Schools

 * Tesla STEM High School created in 2012 in Redmond, Washington as a choice school with a focus on STEM subjects. The name was chosen by a student vote.