The Electrical Discharge - Nikola Tesla Monument (Nikola Tesla Street, Prague) - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Depicted stunnig huge modern monument in the shape of stylized Tesla generator electrical discharge, unveiled in Prague' municipal district Dejvice on September 2014, is devoted to genial inventor, futurist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

The Nikola Tesla Monument was unveiled by the mayor of the municipal district of Prague 6 Mrs. Marie Kousalíková in the presence of representatives of the Capital City of Prague, the Rectorate of the Czech Technical University, the mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic, and the ambassadors of the Republic of Croatia and of the Republic of Serbia. The monument was financed with the help of the Prague 6, Ceská Sporitelna (saving bank) as the main partner, and the City of Zagreb thanks to the initiative of the Croatian-Czech Society. The bronze-cast monument was designed by sculptor Stefan Milkov and architect Jirí Trojan.

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Tesla gained experience in telephony and electrical engineering before immigrating to the United States in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison in New York City. He soon struck out on his own with financial backers, setting up laboratories and companies to develop a range of electrical devices. His patented AC induction motor and transformer were licensed by George Westinghouse, who also hired Tesla for a short time as a consultant. His work in the formative years of electric power development was also involved in the corporate struggle between making alternating current or direct current the power transmission standard, referred to as the war of currents. Tesla went on to pursue his ideas of wireless lighting and electricity distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs and made early (1893) pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. He tried to put these ideas to practical use in his ill-fated attempt at intercontinental wireless transmission; his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project. In his lab he also conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillator/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He even built a wireless controlled boat which may have been the first such device ever exhibited.

Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually earning him a reputation in popular culture as an archetypal "mad scientist." His patents earned him a considerable amount of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. He lived most of his life in a series of New York hotels, through his retirement. He died on 7 January 1943.

Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. Tesla has experienced a resurgence in interest in popular culture since the 1990s. [wiki]

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