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Dec 3, 2023 - Very bad and sad news! Hooligans and thefts vandalized and stole all bronze plaques (including Tesla's one) from SPARK memorial park in Calgary dedicated to 4 Serbian scientists: Nikola Tesla, Mihajlo Pupin, Milutin Milankovic and Mileva Maric.Please visit SPARK website to see how you can help to recover our great memorial park.
Dec 2, 2023 - Mitacs:Tesla in Science Textbooks project - Note that Athabasca University has posted the position to work on Tesla in Science Textbooks project. Angela and Farook are ready to interview short-listed candidates.
Jun 2, 2023 Tesla visiting Belgrade 1892 newspaper article. Thank you Majda,Lillian and Lydia for translation to English! Original Serbian newspaper version.
June 14, 2023 - Mitacs:Tesla in Science Textbooks project - Great news! Our research proposal for Mitacs Accelerate has successfully passed the research review. Thank you Angela and team! Feb 8, 2023 - Mitacs:Tesla in Science Textbooks project - Very exciting news that our application (Tesla in Science Textbooks) got submitted to the Mitacs! July 31, 2021 - We are sponsoring movie "Tesla Nation" on CEFF in November. Please check tickets on Calgary European Film Festival website July 30, 2021 - Nikola Tesla in newspapers in 1890's. This PDF like a time mashine will take you back to Tesla's time: Tesla in his time news PDF July 10, 2021 - CTS presented virtual presentation - Life and Legacy of Nikola Tesla. Stay tuned for new next presentation in September. July 10, 2021 - Nikola Tesla Team Canada - Tesla Tales Across Time video on 165th Nikola Tesla birthday, Watch this video on YouTube - Tesla Tales Across Time March 10, 2021 - We are proud to announce that Nikola Tesla Arts Contest(by NTHSA) winners are: Feb 27, 2021 - New Society board is elected. Fifth AGM report will be mailed out to society members in March 2021
Ana Milanovic,CTS, for Nikola Tesla in Light paintings
Peter Bracket,CTS, delivered a great presentation on NTHSA-Science Series-Lecture on Electromagnetism - watch on our YT channel and
Majda Dordjevic,CTS, for FOUR SHORT STORIES ABOUT NIKOLA TESLA
January 29, 2021 - Nikola Tesla Arts Contest by NTHSA - apply by 7 March 2021 How to apply
January 28, 2021 - Fifth CTS AGM meeting (virtual) date/time soon to be announced
July 10, 2020 - Happy birthday Nikola Tesla! Please enjoy and share this video created by Nikola Tesla Team Canada: https://youtu.be/s2j0h_tlCzg
November 24, 2019 - The board will start Calgary's schools presentation about Nikola Tesla in 2019/20 on 29 November. Please contact us at school@teslasociety.ca to schedule one in your kid's school.
November 20, 2019 - CTS got scheduled 12 Nikola Tesla presentations in Calgary Libraries locations next winter and spring.
September 25, 2019 - CTS is community partner for excellent movie about Serbian immigrant (like Tesla). The move is Easy Land on CIFF. More information and free tickets on our Facebook page .
September 16, 2019 - CTS is going to deliver the first (of 11 scheduled) Nikola Tesla presentations in Shawnessy Calgary Library on September 19 at 6pm, Kids 8-12 program.
June 10, 2019 - The Mayor of Edmonton, Don Iveson, has proclaimed July 10th to be Nikola Tesla Day. Great job Nikola Tesla society from Edmonton - Alberta's Tesla Wave! Nenshi let us "Be Part of 'Tesla' Energy"!
May 22, 2019 - Great news! CTS got scheduled 11 Nikola Tesla presentations in Calgary Libraries locations next fall.
May 6, 2019 - The Calgary Tesla Award winner Oberon Technologies is now a finalist for Enactus 2019 Student Entrepreneur. Read more in this article.
May, 2019 - Visit society booth at Serbian Fest 2019 on 18th and 19th May 2019. More information on serbianfest.ca.
Feb 23rd, 2019 - New Society board is elected. Fourth AGM report will be mailed out to society members in March 2019 .
Jan 25th, 2019 - The Society started to deliver Nikola Tesla presentations in Calgary schools. Please check this school's presentations page.
Jan 2019 - Invitation are sent out for Fourth Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM meeting is scheduled for Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 11AM.
December 15th, 2018 - 2018 was great year for our society! Please help us to deliver next year more Nikola Tesla presentations to Calgary's schools. Please use this contact form to help with arranging school presentations about Nikola Tesla.
November 6th, 2018 - Tesla Motor Night was great event with great audience and great speakers. More than 100 visitors enyoyed opportunity to hear about Nikola Tesla life and achivements. Thank you! /event
October 2018 - Let us celebrate the 130th anniversary of Nikola Tesla motor invention - Tesla Motor Night. The event is scheduled in 6th November 2018 at 6PM in Glenbow Museum. More details and to buy tickets here: teslasociety.ca/event. Limited number of tickets avaliable at the entrance as well.
September 18th, 2018 - We are proud to anounce 2018 - Calgary Tesla Award. More information and free registration here Tesla Award
Jun 2018 - Our society is preparing an event to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Nikola Tesla motor invention - Tesla Motor Night. The event is scheduled in 6th November 2018. More details here teslasociety.ca/event
May 29th, 2018 - The Society delivered one Nikola Tesla presentation to Connect Charter Elementary School by Dr Majda Djordjevic and Zoran Milanovic. A total of approximately
70 students and their science teachers attended the presentation.
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May 22nd, 2018 - The Society delivered two Nikola Tesla presentations to Brentwood Elementary School by Dr Majda Djordjevic, Peter Brackett and Zoran Milanovic. A total of approximately
80 students and their science teachers attended the presentations.
May 19th and 20th, 2018 - The Society was part of Serbian Fest 2018 with our Tesla booth. Great number of visitors and many answered questions.
Thank you to Olga Voncina, Tijana Vujadinovic, Milovan Fustic, Jagos Radovic and Rajko Pavic for helping on the booth.
May 1st, 2018 - The Society delivered Nikola Tesla presentation to Edgemont Elementary School by Dr Majda Djordjevic and Zoran Milanovic. A total of approximately
140 students and their science teachers attended. After, a movie about Nikola Tesla discussion was developed in which students actively participated. At the end,
experiments with plasma globe were performed. They, in their rudimentary form, were
discovered by Nikola Tesla. Students' interest surpassed our expectations so that the
discussion continued after the end of the class, as long as the time permitted.
Mar 19th, 2018 - The Society delivered Nikola Tesla presentations to Westgate Elementary School in Calgary! Two presentations were delivered by CTS's Dr Majda Djordjevic and Zoran Milanovic. Each presentation was attended by 2 classes of grade 5 students, their science teachers and the school principal. At the beginning, a movie “Nikola Tesla - Spirit, Work, Vision†was shown by special permission of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Based on the movie and students’ knowledge about electromagnetism, a discussion was developed in which students actively participated. At the end, experiments with plasma globe were performed. They, in their rudimentary form were discovered by Nikola Tesla. Students’ interest surpassed our expectations so that the discussion continued after the end of the class, as long as the time permitted.
Please help us to contact other interested schools. You can contact the society with information on this link CTS presentations.
Mar 2018 - New Society board is elected. Third AGM report will be mailed out to society members in April 2018 .
Feb 2018 - Invitation are sent out for Third Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM meeting is scheduled for Sunday, 25th February 2018 at 3PM.
Jan 2018 - We are proud to anounce 2018 - Calgary Tesla Award. More information here Award
October 2017 - The board started new intiative for Calgary's schools presentation about Nikola Tesla in 2018
September 2017 - The winner of the first CTS award was Doppio! Teddy Seyed, the innovator, is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science.
July 2017 - UofC the Campus Arts Committee rejected to approve any location on UofC campus for Nikola Tesla statue which would be fully funded by Calgary Tesla Society and its supporters.
Apr 2017 - Calgary Tesla Award is established to honor Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla.
Mar 2017 - We are proud to announce another great presentation about Tesla's life and work in U of C EEEL 161. on 29th March at 7PM. Presenting Dr Majda Djordjevic.
Feb 2017 - Second AGM report will be mailed out to society members in May 2017.
Jan 2017 - Invitation are sent out for Second Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM meeting is scheduled for Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 3PM.
Nov 2016 - Tesla Tribute Night was a great success! Over 100 visitors and great support for Tesla!
Jun 2016 - Our society is preparing event to celebrate the 160th anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s birth - Tesla Tribute Night. The event is scheduled on November 3rd, 2016 at 7PM in Calgary Petroleum Club and all profit will go towards the establishing Calgary Tesla Award
Mar 2016 - AGM report is mailed out to society members in March 2016.
Jan 2016 - Invitation are sent out for first Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM meeting is scheduled for Sunday, February 21, at 3PM.
The purpose of this Society is to honor the memory of the great Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla, and to educate and promote greater public awareness of his accomplishments. Calgary Tesla Society is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer membership only organization.
To honour Tesla, a true altruist who put mankind before his own self. The man who "lit the world".
To educate the public about the often overlooked man responsible for major patents in AC power production and distribution, motors, radio, wireless...etc. To establish Tesla Fund to help young and talented researchers.
To promote awareness about Tesla and his triumphs.
We are a group of citizens with a passion to promote Tesla's legacy.
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From Wikipedia: Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Ðикола ТеÑла; 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.
Please, read this free book about Nikola Tesla. American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 1888. Listen to New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Eulogy on Nikola Tesla on January 10, 1943
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Tesla has been called the patron saint of modern electricity and the father of the radio and wireless technology.
Nikola Tesla was born a subject of the Austria in 1856 in a mountainous area of the Balkan Peninsula known as Lika. Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.â€
His father Milutin, Serbian Orthodox priest, and his mother Djuka, were both Serbian by origin. Tesla's father was a stern but loving Serbian Orthodox priest, who was also a gifted writer and poet.
Milka, Angelina and Marica - Tesla's sisters. Tesla attributed all of his inventive instincts to his mother.
Tesla began his education at home and later attended gymnasium in Carlstadt. An early sign of his genius, he was able to perform integral calculus in his mind, prompting his teachers to think he was cheating.
Tesla enrolled at the Austrian Polytechnic School in Graz on a Military Border scholarship. In his first year, Tesla never missed a lecture, made the highest grades possible and started a Serbian culture club.
Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, contracts an unspecified illness and dies at age 60. The following day, he was given a "funeral liturgy fit for a saint," and was buried in the Jasikovac cemetery in Divoselo.
Tesla's Uncle Pavle arranges for Tesla to work for Ferenc Puskas at the Budapest Telephone Exchange in Hungary, which was then under construction. When Tesla arrived he worked as a draftsman in the Central Telegraph Office. The Budapest Telephone Exchange became operational and Tesla was assigned the position of Chief Electrician.
Tesla and his good friend Anthony Szigety accepted positions with the Continental Edison Company, which had recently been started in Paris.Tesla worked for Charles Batchelor at the Ivry-sur-Seine lamp factory and installed lighting systems in the Paris Opera House and a theater in Bavaria.
Tesla arrived in New York with four cents in his pocket, a few poems and Charles Batchelor's recommendation letter for Edison. We know that Edison hired Tesla on the spot to work on his D.C system but would hear nothing of Tesla's A.C. power system ideas.
At some point during Tesla's employment, Edison promises to pay him $50,000 if he can improve the performance of Edison's D.C. dynamo. Tesla succeeds beyond Edison's expectations, but he reneges on his promise to pay Tesla. Edison is quoted, "You don't understand our American humor." Deeply hurt, Tesla resigns.
Tesla sells patents for A.C. Polyphase System to George Westinghouse for $25,000 in cash, $50,000 in notes and a royalty of $2.50 per horsepower for each motor. Tesla waived all his future royalties so Westinghouse can stay in A.C. business.
Mark Twain in Tesla's Laboratory at 35 South Fifth Avenue, 1895. Tesla was good friends with Mark Twain, famous American writer.
Tesla:"...Meanwhile, the transmission of energy on an industrial scale is not being neglected.The Canadian Niagara Power Company have offered me a splendid inducement, and next to achieving success for the sake of the art, it will give me the greatest satisfaction to make their concession financially profitable to them."
Tesla:"In this First power plant, which I have been designing for a long time, I propose to distribute 10,000 horsepower under a tension of 10,000,000 volts, which I am now able to produce and handle with safety..."
With high frequencies, Tesla developed some of the first neon and fluorescent illumination. He also took the first x-ray photographs. He experimented with shadowgraphs similar to those that later were to be used by Wilhelm Röntgen when he discovered X-rays in 1895.But these discoveries paled in comparison to his illuminating a vacuum tube wirelessly - having transmitted energy through the air. This was the beginning of Tesla's lifelong obsession - the wireless transmission of energy.
Renowned Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla created one of the world's first wireless remote controls, which he unveiled at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1898. He called his fledgling system, which could be used to control a range of mechanical contraptions, a "teleautomaton." For his demonstration, Tesla employed a miniature boat controlled by radio waves. The boat had a small metal antenna that could receive exactly one radio frequency.
Tesla filed for radio patents in 1897 in the United States. Marconi attempted to file for patents in 1900 but received a denial because of Tesla's existing patents. But Marconi's radio company began to experience financial success and support from important members of the American industrial community, like Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. In 1904, the U.S. patent office granted Marconi a patent for the invention of radio. U.S. Supreme Court decided in Tesla's favor when they finally heard the case in 1943.
From an historical standpoint, it is significant that the genius Nikola Tesla envisaged a world wide communication system using a huge spark gap transmitter located in Colorado Springs in 1899. A few years later he built a large facility in Long Island that he hoped would transmit signals to the Cornish coast of England. In addition, he proposed to use a modified version of the system to distribute power to all points of the globe.
Tesla: “But we shall not satisfy ourselves simply with improving steam and explosive engines or inventing new batteries; we have something much better to work for, a greater task to fulfill. We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever.â€
Tesla: “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.â€
Tesla:“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.â€
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla had died in room 3327 at the New Yorker Hotel, New York City. Hundreds filed into New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for his funeral services, and a flood of messages acknowledged the loss of a great genius. New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia read a eulogy live on New York Radio, written by Louis Adamic. Three Nobel Prize recipients addressed their tribute to "one of the outstanding intellects of the world who paved the way for many of the technological developments of modern times". After Tesla's death the custodian of alien property impounded his trunks, which held his papers, his diplomas and other honours, his letters and his laboratory notes. These were eventually inherited by Tesla's nephew, Sava Kosanovich, and later housed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
Calgary Tesla Society organizes its activities through four chapter activities:
We organize and support presentations about Tesla’s work and life and we work to implement information about Tesla into high-school curriculum.
Calgary Tesla Award established to honor Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (link).
Seeking bold, and innovative ideas/ventures that positively impact humanity and the planet (in the spirit of Nikola Tesla)
Nikola Tesla is an under-recognized inventor who was instrumental to our mainstay system of electricity transfer (alternating current) and made hundreds of significant and groundbreaking inventions in areas of wireless energy, wireless communication, magnetism, radio, x-rays, cosmic rays, radar, robotics, tele-automation and much more.
We need your help and support to unveil a monument to Nikola Tesla in Calgary.
Tesla Monument intiative document.
Great Tesla statue by Terry Guyer
Terry Guyer is a well-respected painter and sculptor based in Menlo Park, California. Terry was commissioned by Northern Imagination for the creation of the Tesla Statue.
Calgary We suport intiative to rename 243 Ave E (on Range Road 294), Alberta, Canada to Nikola Tesla Road.
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