Monument to Nikola Tesla to be installed in Minsk

Monument to Nikola Tesla in Niagara Falls (Canada)

An outstanding electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is widely known for numerous technical inventions. The unit of measurement of magnetic induction in the international system of units SI, the American company for the production of electric vehicles, is named in his honor, a street in several cities in Croatia. Monuments have been erected in his honor in the USA, Croatia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, etc.

Now the memory of the brilliant scientist will be immortalized in Minsk. After the meeting of the mayors of the twin cities of Belgrade and Minsk, the authorities of the Belarusian capital decided to erect a monument to Nikola Tesla . The monument will be made by Belgrade sculptors. The park or part of the park where the monument will be located is likely to be named Happy Planet. Installation dates are not yet called.


Monument to Nikola Tesla in Prague (Czech Republic)
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A Serb by nationality, Nikola Tesla was born in the village of Smilyan of the Austrian Empire (now Croatia). While traveling in Europe (Budapest, Prague, Paris, Strasbourg) and working as an electrical engineer, Nikola Tesla created the first sketches of his main invention, an asynchronous electric motor. At this time, Tesla was thinking about moving to Russia , but one of the administrators of the Continental Company, Charles Bechlor, dissuaded him from this idea and offered to go to the USA, and also wrote a letter of introduction to his friend Thomas Edison.

Thus, Tesla made his great inventions not in Russia, but in the USA. Here are just a few of his achievements.

• The first sample of the RF electromechanical generator (including the inductor type).

• High-frequency transformer (Tesla's transformer, 1891).

• The first safety rules when working with high-frequency currents (Tesla empirically discovered that at a current frequency of over 700 Hz, electric current flows across the surface of the body, without harming the tissues of the body).

• A method for cleaning contaminated surfaces with high-frequency currents.

• Strict scientific description of the essence of the phenomenon of a rotating magnetic field (October 12, 1887).

• Multiphase electric machines, including asynchronous electric motor, and systems for the transmission of electricity through multiphase alternating current. A number of power plants were launched on this technology, including the largest at that time Niagara hydroelectric station (1895).

• Principles of radio communication (1891) and the invention of a mast antenna (1893).

Nikola Tesla’s developments are widely used in the 21st century: these are electric generators, electric motors, radio-controlled robotics, and wireless power transmission. Inventions of the great engineer in many ways ahead of their time.