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   Nikola Tesla

   Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86. ... When Tesla was forty-one years old, he filed the first basic radio patent (U.S. Patent 645,576 ).
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   Wardenclyffe Tower

   Tesla was familiar with demonstrations that involved the charging of Leyden jar capacitors and isolated metal spheres with electrostatic influence machines. ... Using a global array of these magnifying transmitters, it was Tesla's plan to establish what he called the "World System," providing multi-channel global broadcasting, an array of secure wireless telecommunications services, and a long range aid to navigation, including means for the precise synchronization of clocks.
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   Tesla turbine

   Minor departures from the turbine, as may be dictated by the circumstances in each case, will obviously suggest themselves but if it is carried out on these general lines it will be found highly profitable to the owners of the steam plant while permitting the use of their old installation. ... In the 1950s, Warren Rice attempted to re-create Tesla's experiments, but he did not perform these early tests on a pump built strictly in line with the Tesla's patented design (it, among other things, was not a Tesla multiple staged turbine nor did it possess Tesla's nozzle).
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   Invention of radio

   He used what is today called a hertz antenna (with the other forms being the Marconi antenna and Tesla antenna). ... Hertz died in 1894, so the art of radio was left to others to implement into a practical useful form.
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   Nikola Tesla in popular culture

   He is founder and mentor of super-hero team Generation Tesla. ... "JLA: Age of Wonder" (2003) was a two-issue mini-series from DC Comics' Elseworlds line, in which Superman lands in Kansas in the 1850s and emerges on the world stage at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
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   Thomas Edison

   When Edison was a very old man and close to death, he said, in looking back, that the biggest mistake he had made was that he never respected Tesla or his work. ... Thomas Edison died on October 18, 1931, in his home, "Glenmont" in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey, which he had purchased in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina.
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   Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport

   The last flight from the old airport was at the beginning of 1964. ... The following scheduled passenger airlines use Nikola Tesla Airport (as of October 2008):
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   History of radio

   In August 1898 he got U.S. Patent 609,154 , "Electric Telegraphy", that made wireless signals using Ruhmkorff coils or Tesla coils for the transmitter and a Branly coherer for the detector. ... Popov died in 1905 and his claim was not pressed by the Russian government until 1945.
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   Supporting Banpresto original characters

   Leading the remaining Divine Crusaders to Geneva, Alder would attempt to take the Earth Federation capital with the Valsions, but after seeing his crazed ambition and unyielding for power, his subordinates would desert him in the battle, and he dies when his Rhinoceras battleship is destroyed. ... 54 year-old Jonathan Kazahara is one of the researchers at the Tesla Leicht Institute.
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    Supporting Banpresto Original Characters

    Leading the remaining Divine Crusaders to Geneva, Alder would attempt to take the Earth Federation capital with the Valsions, but after seeing his crazed ambition and unyielding for power, his subordinates would desert him in the battle, and he dies when his Rhinoceras battleship is destroyed. ... 54 year-old Jonathan Kazahara is one of the researchers at the Tesla Leicht Institute.

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• Thomas Edison,
• Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport,
• History of radio,
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• Supporting Banpresto Original Characters