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45 It should be remembered that around 1880, electrical energy and electric mo- tors had to compete against the already existing and well-established sources of power and energy of the time, such as steam engines and pressurised, hot- air and gas engines. Gas networks for light and power, which were already in place in many towns, delayed electrification in part for many years. Moreover, operation and maintenance of the novel electric motors led to high operating costs due to high personnel costs. Which system should finally establish itself was dependent on the economic interests of industry, political interests of the city and the demands of special industrial applications /3/. To develop his alternating-current motor, Tesla had to invent a completely new electrical system. To implement his ideas, he moved from Budapest to the Continental Edison Company in Paris in 1882. At Strasbourg in 1883, he managed to make the first working alternating-current motor, although this event was met with little attention. In 1884, Tesla accepted an offer to work directly with Edison in New York. At the beginning, Tesla and Edison worked together very successfully. Tesla improved Edison’s dynamos but was cheated out of some money by Edison in the end, since he reneged on a promised bonus payment in 1885. After one year, their working relationship was ended. Tesla and Edison were two com- pletely different characters and preferred two different electricity systems. Tesla pursued his ideas of AC as being the superior technology of the future, while Edison favoured the DC system. The essential disadvantage of the DC system was recognised by Tesla very clearly. DC for supplying lighting sys- tems could not be transported over long distances since it was impossible to produce the necessary high voltages. Hence Edison was forced to build his DC power stations at distances no further than 3 km away. With the help of financiers Charles Peck and Alfred Brown, Tesla was able to found the Tesla Electric Company in New York in the spring of 1887. He convinced both of them with a simple demonstration by rotating a metallic egg and making it stand on its end using an electrical rotating field. In the Tesla Electric Company, Nicola Tesla could dedicate himself to optimising his AC motor and further develop the polyphase AC system in his own laboratory in New York.
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Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech
Titel
Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech
Autoren
Uwe Schichler
Josef W. Wohinz
Verlag
Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
Ort
Graz
Datum
2020
Sprache
deutsch
Lizenz
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN
978-3-85125-688-1
Abmessungen
20.0 x 25.0 cm
Seiten
124
Kategorie
Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  1. Editor’s foreword 8
  2. Nikola Tesla and the Graz Tech 11
  3. The Graz Tech: A tradition of innovation 12
  4. Nikola Tesla: Milestones in his life 14
  5. Nikola Tesla: Student at the Graz Tech 20
  6. Nikola Tesla: Honorary doctor of technical sciences 28
  7. People shape the development of the Tech 37
  8. References 38
  9. Nikola Tesla: Visionary and Inventor Contributions to scientific and industrial development 41
  10. Development of electrical engineering from 1850 to 1950 42
  11. The problem of the commutator 43
  12. The rotating magnetic field: Polyphase alternating current system 43
  13. The Niagara Falls power station: Direct current or alternating current? 44
  14. High frequency, the Tesla transformer and Wardenclyffe Tower 54
  15. Remote-controlled ships and robots 62
  16. Hotel room 3327 in New York 64
  17. Tesla’s innovations: visible in the 21st century 65
  18. References 65
  19. Constant development and unrelenting progress is the goal… Stages in the development of the Universalmuseum Joanneum 67
  20. The main reasons behind its establishment and their classification in the history of museums 70
  21. Original scope 72
  22. Outline of the course of development 73
  23. The early Joanneum (1811 to 1887) 75
  24. The Joanneum from 1888 to 2002 82
  25. The State Museum or Universalmuseum Joanneum GmbH: Stepping out into the Future 87
  26. References 90
  27. The architecture of the high-voltage laboratory: An exciting architectural monument to technology 91
  28. Design principle 94
  29. Tasks and test facilities 97
  30. Postscript 98
  31. References 98
  32. ‘ Technology is the pride of our age’ (Peter Rosegger) A technological history of Graz in the 19th century 99
  33. References 118
  34. List of authors 120
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