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Top Inventions of Nikola Tesla! Inventor of modern electricity!

2,070 views · Published 12 November 2017 · 10:39 · Indexed 11 October 2026

Channel: Zero2Hero · 2017 · Education

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While the inventions of Thomas Edison are widely taught in school, many people have never heard of Nikola Tesla. However, Tesla's inventions have had a much wider impact on our daily lives, even today!

From remote controls, neon lights, and the Tesla Coil, to robots and lasers! Tesla helped to pave the way for modern electronics. Brought to you by Zero2Hero !

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American Inventor who lived from July 1856 to Jan 1943. Perhaps you have not heard of him by name but you will have undoubtedly heard of his inventions. So, let’s look at the top inventions of Nikola Tesla. See how many of these inventions you still use today!
Number 9: Alternating Current.
Alternating Current is where Nikola Tesla’s inventing truly began. It caused much controversy at its time, because Tesla was competing directly against the well-known inventor Thomas Edison who had conceived Direct Current. Both are types of an electricity distribution method – Alternating Current periodically reverses direction and Direct Current flows in one direction continuously. At the time Edison’s Direct Current was being backed by General Electric, a big name in Electricity in America, but Tesla proved that his method was cheaper and safer than the alternative. Alternating Current is now the form of electricity that is delivered to homes and businesses for everyday use. When you plug in your household appliances, like a stove, tv or lights, you are using Nikola Tesla’s Alternating Current. 
Electrical energy is distributed as Alternating Current because this way the voltage can be increased and decreased with a transformer. This means power can travel through power lines at a high voltage and then be stepped down to a lower and safer voltage for use in our homes and businesses. Without Tesla’s Alternating Current, who knows where we’d be today!
Number 8: Fluorescent Light.
Nikola Tesla had a great deal to do with the invention of various light forms, he basically came up with many ways that it can be harnessed and distributed to produce different forms of light. He developed and made use of florescent light bulbs around 40 years before the industry itself even started to use or advertise them. He attended the World’s Fair and demonstrated his new light form by bending glass tubes into his fellow scientists’ names, essentially creating the first neon signs. 
The high frequency electricity he was producing allowed him to create bright illuminations that would later be known as fluorescent lighting. Next time you see shop signs illuminated at night you’ll be able to trace the invention back to Tesla!
Number 7: The Tesla Coil.
Tesla had always dreamed of being able to create a power supply for the world that would mean the end of wires being strung up around every household and for every appliance. His invention of the Tesla Coil was the first system that could wirelessly transmit electricity and it was said to be truly revolutionary. It was put to use for early radio antennas and telegraph poles, and also allowed Tesla to show off by shooting lightning bolts, sending electric currents trough his own body, and creating electron winds. The Coil was developed in 1891 and was built to be able to tolerate high frequencies of voltage that ordinary transformers couldn’t cope with. In basic terms, the Tesla Coil is two open electric circuits connected to a spark gap. The primary coil is made of copper to withstand a massive surge of electricity, then the capacitor builds up so much charge that the air in the spark gap is broken down. The current flow bursts out of the capacitor creating a magnetic field – this breaks down quickly, supplying the secondary coil with an electric current. Although the coil doesn’t have much bearing in today’s modern world, it was a complete game changer back then when it came to understanding electricity. Today, Tesla Coils can be seen in many museums around the world, including the Griffith Peak Observatory in Los Angeles, California!
Number 6: Xrays.
It was in 1894 that Tesla began many investigations into what he called invisible kinds of energy. This started after he was reviewing some damaged film results from previous experiments in his laboratory and saw strange and unusual pictures. He later named what he saw as Roentgen Rays – or as we know it now, X Rays.

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