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Top 5 unknown inventions by Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist and futurist who lived from 1856-1943. He is best known for his design, which is still used today, with the alternating current(AC), electricity supply system.

Although Nikola Tesla  is not a household name, many believe he was one the greatest minds that ever lived, with his die-hard fans arguing he was way ahead of his contemporaries Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. Plans are underway to build a crowd, funded a museum dedicated to the inventor, and the project is spearheaded by Matthew Inman, proprietor of the webcomic The Oatmeal. Here are some of Tesla’s mind- blowing inventions;

Robotics

As early as 1898, Nikola Tesla  had already envisioned robots which were to make life easier by taking on some tasks. He built a radio controlled boat which many credits as the birth of robotics. Clearly, Tesla was way ahead of his time as he saw the world that would be filled with smart cars, human companions, autonomous systems, and sensors.

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Earthquake Machine Nikola Tesla 

Still, in the year 1898, Tesla built a small oscillating device that when attached and switched on, had the ability to shake down a building and everything in it and around it. This device was just a few pounds in weight, but every time Tesla adjusted the frequency of the oscillator, the vibration wave to the building increased. This meant that if the devices adjustment was increased further, it had the ability to tear down a building.

Tesla then realized the weight of the invention and the potential problems it could bring. He disabled it with a hammer and asked his employees not to mention the cause of the vibrations to the building if asked.

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Death Ray

In the 1930’s Tesla invented a particle beam weapon that was christened the ‘peace ray.’ This weapon had the ability to generate an intense beam that could be used to get rid of enemy warplanes, foreign armies or anything that needed to be destroyed completely.

Although he sold the idea to the military, the death ray was never constructed, and efforts to get the plans for the device after his death did not bear fruit.

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Wireless energy transfer

During the 1893 Chicago Trade Fair, Tesla demonstrated a process called electrodynamic induction. This was a way to transmit electricity without wires and involved firing up a series of phosphorous light bulbs.

His objective was the technology would help transmit power over long distances without the use of cables.

A century later, companies such as Intel and Sony are looking for ways to apply the non-radiative energy transfer to mobile phones to enable users to charge their phones without the use of cables.

X-rays by Nikola Tesla

The ability that radiographers have of having a look inside the human body without surgery can be credited to Tesla. Although history gives the bragging rights to German physicist Willhelm Röntgen,  it is Tesla, who had done experiments on the x-ray machine eight years earlier. He then highlighted the dangers of using radiation on the human flesh.

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