Editing Nikola Tesla (section)

== Legacy and honors ==
{{See also|Nikola Tesla in popular culture|List of things named after Nikola Tesla|List of Nikola Tesla patents}}
[[File:Urn with Teslas ashes.jpg|thumb|Gilded urn with Tesla's ashes, in his favorite geometric object, a [[sphere]] ([[Nikola Tesla Museum]], Belgrade)]]
In 1952, following pressure from Tesla's nephew, influential Yugoslav politician {{ill|Sava Kosanović|sr|Sava Kosanović (političar)}}, Tesla's entire estate was shipped to Belgrade in 80 trunks marked N.T. In 1957, Kosanović's secretary Charlotte Muzar transported Tesla's ashes from the United States to Belgrade. The ashes are displayed in a gold-plated sphere on a marble pedestal in the [[Nikola Tesla Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Urn with Tesla's ashes |url=http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en/muzej/3.htm |publisher=Tesla Museum |access-date=16 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825230422/http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en/muzej/3.htm |archive-date=25 August 2012 }}</ref> Nikola Tesla's Archive consists of over 160,000 original documents and is included in UNESCO [[Memory of the World Programme]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Nikola Tesla's Archive |url=https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/nikola-teslas-archive |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241203015718/https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/nikola-teslas-archive |archive-date=2024-12-03 |access-date=2024-12-24 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Archive – Nikola Tesla Museum |url=https://tesla-museum.org/en/legacy/archive/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Tesla obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions.<ref name="sarboh">{{cite web |url=http://www.tesla-symp06.org/papers/Tesla-Symp06_Sarboh.pdf |title=Nikola Tesla's Patents |first=Snežana |last=Šarboh |date=18–20 October 2006 |work=Sixth International Symposium Nikola Tesla |location=Belgrade, Serbia |page=6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030134331/http://www.tesla-symp06.org/papers/Tesla-Symp06_Sarboh.pdf |archive-date=30 October 2007 |access-date=8 October 2010 |ref=sarbo}}</ref> Some of Tesla's patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. There are a minimum of 278 known patents<ref name="sarboh" /> issued to Tesla in 26 countries. Many of Tesla's patents were in the United States, [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]], and Canada, but many other patents were approved in countries around the globe.{{sfn|Cheney|2001|p=62}} Many inventions developed by Tesla were not put into patent protection.{{Cn|date=October 2024}}