Serbia and Montenegro - Nikola Tesla’s Archive.
A unique collection of manuscripts, photographs, scientific and patent documentation, indispensable to the study of the history of electrification. Serbian-born American inventor and scientist, Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943), was a pioneer in electrification who significantly influenced technological development with his polyphase system inventions. This system is the cornerstone of modern electro-energetic production, long distance transmission and use of electrical currents, and communication.
Beside inventing the alternate currents motor, he invented the Tesla coil – a high frequency transformer, which is an essential part of all contemporary high frequency devices. Tesla also pioneered research into other effects produced by his currents, such as the possibility of induction heating, ozone production, and effects on the human organism.
The plasma production technique that he invented was pioneering
work in this field, which only recently became important for the production of
computer chips. His inventions have been crucial to the development of many of
today’s technologies including radio, radar, television, motors of all kinds,
and computers. He is also credited with predicting the emerging energy problem
as early as 1900. The Archive, in Belgrade, has a collection of 160,000 pages of
patent documentation, scientific correspondence, scientific papers, manuscripts,
technical drawings, scientific measuring data, personal documents, and legal
papers and around 1,000 original photographs of Tesla’s experiments and
inventions. This material was brought to Belgrade after the scientist’s death in
New York in 1943. It comprises the most complete record of Tesla’s inventions
and forms an essential source of information for researchers and historians of
science.
