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Question: Which of his inventions Tesla considered to be his best?

Answer: In his autobiography "My Inventions," Tesla mentions the invention of the high-voltage transmitter as his "best invention". The high-voltage transmitter is a converter producing voltages of several million volts.
It was adjusted to induce the Earth, which Tesla considered to be an excellant conductor, through which the energy could be transmitted to any point on the planet.

Q: Did Tesla receive the Nobel Prize?

A: Tesla never received the Nobel Prize. In 1915, on November 5, the correspondents of Daily Telegraph and the Telegraph Agency from Copenhagen wired the news that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison should receive the Nobel Prize for physics. This news provoked a great interest of the public, but the news proved to be false. Tesla and Edison were not officially nominated for the Nobel Prize that year. In 1937, Professor Felix Erenhaft from Vienna submitted a proposal to the Nobel Prize Committee with the explication for the nomination of Nikola Tesla for the prize in physics, for the discovery of high-frequency currents and the rotating magnetic field. The proposal was rejected on the grounds that Tesla's inventions, however brilliant and significant in a broad field of electro engineering, were realized forty years ago, and that the Nobel Committee is not awarding prizes for contributions realized in the past.

Q: What are Tesla's Currents?

A: In 1891, Tesla discovered the device that will become known as Tesla's Oscillator of High-Frequency Currents. The apparatus of Tesla's Oscillator consists of a high-frequency transformer without an iron core, and a sparker.

The currents produced by Tesla's Oscillators have frequencies of several tens of thousands Hz, and are scientifically called Tesla's Currents.

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