Legacy and honors
Main article: Nikola Tesla in popular culture
Tesla's legacy has endured in books, films, radio, TV, music, live theater, comics and video games. The lack of recognition received during his own lifetime has cast him as a tragic and inspirational character, well suited to dramatic fiction. The impact of the technologies invented or envisioned by Tesla is a recurring theme in several types of science fiction.
For example, on Tesla's 75th birthday in 1931, Time magazine put him on its cover.[208] The cover caption "All the world's his power house" noted his contribution to electrical power generation. He received congratulatory letters from more than 70 pioneers in science and engineering, including Albert Einstein.[209]
Things named after Tesla
Awards
Enterprises and organizations
- Tesla, an American rock band formed in Sacramento, California in late 1982
- Tesla, an electrotechnical conglomerate in the former Czechoslovakia
- Tesla Motors, an American electric car manufacturer[211]
- Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatian affiliate of the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson[213]
- The Tesla Society, founded in 1956[214]
Holidays and events
- Nikola Tesla Day in Croatia, 10 July[citation needed]
- Nikola Tesla annual electric vehicle rally in Croatia[215]
Measures
- Tesla, an SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density (or magnetic inductivity)
Places
- On Earth
- Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport[216]
- Nikola Tesla Museum Archive in Belgrade[217][218]
- 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 person eponym of streets in the country.[219]
- In space
- Tesla, a 26 kilometer-wide crater on the far side of the moon[220]
- 2244 Tesla, a minor planet[220]
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