Building a simple motor - same concept as Tesla's

[JFlanscha]

I am teaching an elementary class on inventors and I want to familiarize the students with the person and then do a related project. One of the inventors I chose was Nikola Tesla, famed, for example, for his ideas on an electromagnetic motor. I see your experiment on building a simple electric motor. Would that be an appropriate project relating to Tesla? (By the way, the demonstration video is extremely helpful.)

Second question, are there already any resources relating STEM projects to famous inventors?

[bfinio]

We have a variety of projects on small motors and electrical generators - any of them would be a great connection to Nikola Tesla. I assume you were referring to this project:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... tric-motor, but there are others, for example this one: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-act ... olar-motor

If you check out our blog (https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog), we have a ton of posts connecting famous scientists and engineers to related projects on our site. Here are just a few examples:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/bla ... scientists

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/nat ... -engineers

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/his ... -engineers

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/wom ... ce-history

Hope that helps! Please write back if you have more questions.

[JFlanscha]

Thank you so much!