This is an independent assignment worth a 20 point quiz grade
Do not share answers with classmates
Write all answers in your bound journal, title it: 1304B Teslsa (date)
The following statements are in order when watching the movie. There are 20 incorrect statements.
You are to find the incorrect statement, and rewrite it making it correct.
Your answers must be neat and legible.
Include the section heading (e.g. "My early life") and the number (e.g. 3) to indicate which statement your are fixing
You will receive 1pt for fixing each incorrect statement.
Tesla Master of lightning (1'24")
The movie and questions will take Wednesday and Thursday to Finish (film below questions)
In 1856, Nikola Telsa was born at midnight between July 9th and 10th in Serbia (Croatia). (True or False) Correction _____________________________
At age 17 while preparing for the seminary, Tesla got cholera and it was a life-changing event for him.(True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 1877, Tesla (age 31) went to college in Austria.(True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 1831 Faraday discovered how to induce currents through electromagnetic induction. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb in 1876.(True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla came up with a motor that was a rotating wheel using alternating currents. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The new land
On June 6, 1884, Telsa arrived in America. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
DC power was used in NYC at the time of Tesla's arrival. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
In using DC you cannot change the voltage, what you start with is what you get. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
DC was sufficient to power lights and motors but not for great distances. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla was promised $75,000 from Edison to improve on his DC motors. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Edison ripped off Tesla for his work. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
In May 1888, Tesla unveiled his AC motor. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 5 years Tesla held 24 US patents using AC electricity. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Westinghouse bought all of Tesla's AC patents fro $1,000,000 and signed an agreement to a $2.50 royalty for each horsepower generated by a Tesla invention. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
War of the currents
Late 1880's, Edison was against the use of alternating currents. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Electrocution on animals was never used as a negative ad campaign against AC current. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 1890 several attempts were made to electrocute a man, ending in a man's spinal column bursting into flame. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
On May 1st 1895, Tesla and Westinghouse illuminated the world's fair. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla created the egg of Columbus to show the rotating magnets. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Niagara
The Niagara plant had three 5,000 horsepower generators. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1896 the Niagara system went online and powered the 3 generators. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The generator count went up to 10 total to power lines that went 200 miles away to NYC. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla tore up his $2.50 per horsepower generator. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
High frequency
Tesla drank a glass of whiskey a day saying that it would increase his life expectancy to 150 years. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla was a friend with Mark Twain. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla had phobia about birds, jewelry, hair, perfume and handshaking. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla claimed he destroyed his sexuality at the age of 40. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1873 James Maxwell proved mathematically that light was electricity vibrating at a very high frequency. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The Tesla coil steps up electricity to higher frequencies. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Mark Twain participated in Tesla's experiments. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla developed neon and fluorescent lighting. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla took the first X-Ray photographs. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 1890 Tesla illuminated a vacuum tube in his hands. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The wireless
1892 Tesla showed his experiments to European scientists. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1888 Hertz showed that currents of high frequency released radio waves into space. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla had a vision of his mother the time of her death, he believed that they were tuned to the same frequency. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla could tune his body to the Tesla Coil and produce 4 horsepower. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1897 Tesla produced a patent for the radio. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Cosmic waves
Tesla gave himself electrical treatments because he was depressed to increase his energy/life force. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Because of a Hindu swami, Tesla became more focused on concept that the universe is a symphony of vibration frequencies. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1896 Tesla hooked a small oscillator to an iron pillar and caused damage to the building. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Guglielmo Marconi sent a signal 15 miles on the Salisbury plain in England. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla made the first radio controlled boat 1898. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Colorado springs
1899 Tesla moved to Colorado Springs. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here" was the quote from Dante's Inferno that was placed above the door to Tesla's work station. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The largest Tesla coil was built that shot electricity streamers over 100 feet from the transmitter. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The thunder could be heard from 200 miles away in Cripple Creek. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla received a repeating signal from space "one…two…three." (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tower of dreams
Marconi's patent was similar to Tesla's invention, and was rejected by the US patent office. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla created solar panels. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
J Pieront Morgan agreed to invest 250,000 into Tesla's global wireless system. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla kept his real plan from Morgan, wireless power transmission.(True or False) Correction _____________________________
December 8th 1901, Marconi transmitted the letter "S" across the atlantic. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Modern Prometheus
In 1914, the US patent office reversed their decision and gave Marconi the patent for radio.(True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 1905 Tesla's patents for AC power expired, his inventions can be used by anyone free of charge. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
In 1909 Marconi received the Nobel prize. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1915 the Nobel prize was to be awarded to Edison and Tesla, but it went to William H Bragg instead. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The mad scientist
News reports said that Tesla had invented Death Rays while at Colorado Springs. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla was convinced that Einstein theory of relativity was valid. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla hung out with a mystic. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Weapon to end war
Tesla hated war; his goal was to make all countries able to defend itself. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1931 Thomas Edison died and Tesla came back to life, and celebrated his 77th birthday. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla had a theory of a new form of force call teleforce to shoot beams of electricity to destroy targets. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Tesla creation inspired a superman cartoon featuring the teleforce ray.(True or False) Correction _____________________________
1937 Tesla was hit by a taxi, three of his ribs were broken he was 81 years old. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Westinghouse felt guilty, and agreed to pay his room and board for the rest of his life. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
January 8th, 1943 Tesla had a meeting scheduled at the Whitehouse, however he died at the age of 85. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
Six months after Tesla's death the US Supreme Court invalidated Marconi's patent on the radio. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The missing papers
The federal government was afraid that the Tesla's death ray was released. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
August 5th 1945 first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
1978 it was believed that Russia was developing a great particle beam weapon. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
HARP in Alaska, is a station that beams energy rays into the stratosphere. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The goal of HARP is to transform energy into microwaves to be received by a satellite and beamed back to the earth, where it is then converted into electricity. (True or False) Correction _____________________________
The unit for the physical quantity of magnetic induction bears the name Tesla and uses the symbol "T". (True or False) Correction _____________________________
