# Nikola Tesla's most important inventions

Alternating current, the induction motor, the Tesla coil, radio-controlled boats: the inventions of the Serbian-American genius that lit up the modern world. Which one matters most?

- 53 votes · 10 items
- Mar 10, 2019 · Neha P.
- https://even.best/en/l/2719/nikola-tesla-s-most-important-inventions

## Top 10

1. **The Tesla coil (1891)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — The high-voltage transformer behind his famous sparks.
2. **The AC induction motor** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Motion from alternating current; the principle is still in fans and washing machines.
3. **The polyphase AC power system** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — It made it possible to carry electricity over long distances and power whole cities.
4. **The Niagara Falls power plant (1895)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — With Westinghouse, the first great hydroelectric plant.
5. **Fluorescent and neon lighting (1893)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
6. **The Tesla turbine (1909)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A bladeless turbine with parallel discs.
7. **Radio (1897 patents)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — His wireless patents came before Marconi's work.
8. **Shadowgraphs** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — His early experiments with X-rays.
9. **Remote control (1898)** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — A radio-controlled boat at Madison Square Garden.
10. **The "Teleforce"** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The particle-beam weapon he described in the 1930s, never built.

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