Nobel Prize

On 6 November 1915, a Reuters news agency report from London had the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla; however, on 15 November, a Reuters story from Stockholm stated the prize that year was being awarded to Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays." There were unsubstantiated rumors at the time that Tesla and/or Edison had refused the prize. The Nobel Foundation declined to comment on the rumors other than saying, "Any rumor that a person has not been given a Nobel Prize because he has made known his intention to refuse the reward is ridiculous," a recipient could only decline a Nobel Prize after he is announced a winner.

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.

Patents

Tesla obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions. Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. There are a minimum of 278 patents issued to Tesla in 26 countries that have been accounted for. Many of Tesla's patents were in the United States, Britain, and Canada, but many other patents were approved in countries around the globe. Many inventions developed by Tesla were not put into patent protection.

KEY WORDS

 

  • alternating current – змінний струм

 

  • electricity supply system – система електропостачання

 

  • induction motor – асинхронний двигун

 

  • eidetic memory – ейдетична пам’ять

 

  • direct current generators – генератори постійного струму

 

  • arc light – дуга світла

 

  • rotating magnetic field – обертове магнітне поле

 

  • brushless - безщітковий

 

  • radar - радар

 

  • Nobel Prize in Physics – Нобелівська премія з фізики

 

  • patents - патенти

 

  • inventions - винаходи

 

  • conspiracy theories – теорія змови

 

Reference

 

 

· http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%E5%F1%EB%E0,_%CD%E8%EA%EE%EB%E0

 

 

· http://library.raikevich.com/tesla/

 

 

· http://ntesla.at.ua/index/0-7