Tesla
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Tesla most commonly refers to:
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor
Tesla, Inc., an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.
Tesla (unit) (symbol: T), the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density
Tesla may also refer to:
Companies
Tesla a.s., a Czech electronics company
Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing, a former company in Rahway, New Jersey, US
Media and entertainment
Tesla (band), an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California
Tesla – Lightning in His Hand, a 2003 opera by Constantine Koukias
"Tesla", a song by They Might Be Giants on Nanobots, 2013
"Tesla" (song), by Lil Yachty, 2023
"Tesla", a song by the Bosnian band Letu štuke, 2008
Tesla, an album by English musician, Flux Pavilion, 2015
Tesla, an album by Danish musician, Benjamin Hav, 2021
Tesla (2016 film), by David Grubin
Tesla (2020 film), by Michael Almereyda
Places
Earth
Tesla, California, a former coal mining town in Corral Hollow, US
Tesla, West Virginia, US
Tesla Fault, a geological formation in the Diablo Range, California, US
Tesla River, Romania
Space
2244 Tesla, an asteroid discovered in 1952
Tesla (crater), a lunar crater
Science and technology
Tesla (microarchitecture), developed by Nvidia
Nvidia Tesla, a brand of GPU cards with the Tesla microarchitecture
Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, part of the International Linear Collider project
Timed Efficient Stream Loss-Tolerant Authentication, used in ship automatic identification systems
See also
List of things named after Nikola Tesla
List of Nikola Tesla patents
Nikola Tesla (disambiguation)
Nikola Tesla in popular culture
All pages with titles containing Tesla
All pages with titles beginning with Tesla
Tesler, a surname
TSLAQ, a loose collective critical of Tesla, Inc.
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