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When it comes to Nikola Tesla you will need to redefine bizzare.You can't just state his claims and accomplishments and expect to understand what they stood for, you have to know a bit more about him, please read till the end. Enjoy. Note that the oatmeal comic is a comic and it does exaggerate things.Because the work he has done are monumental, the tesla coil, the ill fated wardenclyff tower(Suraj Patil's answer to Could Nikola Tesla really have powered the whole world for free?), the "death ray", the oscillator that nearly brought an earthquake, wireless electricity(Suraj Patil's answer to Has anyone been able to replicate Tesla's earthquake machine?), and the alleged FBI incident Suraj Patil's answer to Why did the FBI take Nikola Tesla's personal files? Did that really happen? the first electric vehicle was proposed by tesla Why did Elon Musk pick the name Tesla for his DC car instead of Edison?, tesla had even contributed to the electric bulb which went under the name of Edison (Edison never invented the electric bulb, he just improved upon the work of 22 people whom he had hired, he used to say why invent when you can hire people to do that job)This is not it, when he was working at Colorado springs he claimed to hear a storm from thousands of miles away, his hair became prematurely grey he claimed it was because he thought too much and used too much of his brain, he reported strange possibly extra terrestrial waves, making him the father of ET radiology, he used to create ball lightening at whim, which nobody has been able to replicate, he had designed a flying vehicle for a single person, proposed what would be known as Radar in the future to the Navy before Radar was invented (thanks to Edison who was the chair of the Navy's science team the deal got rejected), he had experimented with Xrays before they were officially invented, he had plans to light up the western hemisphere at night time using what he learnt from things like the Northen Lights, his take on that was there are enoughs ions in the ionosphere and we can "rain" them down on any home that wants it, but then he thought it might put the sky on fire. He claimed that he had foreseen that his mother was sick before he got mail that his mother was actually sick.Some quick facts:1. Larry page wanted to write his thesis on Tesla, but he changed the topic to what later became Google2. George westinghouse was the owner of the company which was contracted to utilize the niagara falls, and he had a royalty claim of Tesla's that for every unit of AC sold he was to pay around $2.5 to Tesla, but he didn't have the money to do so, he called Tesla in his office and told him he couldn't possibly pay Tesla, so Tesla tore away the contract sayingMr Westinghouse, you have been a loyal friend and a believer in my work when i was ridiculed my almost everyone you take my patents and lighten the world and continue your work, [and tore the agreements] saying do you need me to do anything else?Boom. Millions of dollars he could have earned. Think of all the AC units we consume, he could have been filthy rich.3. The transistor used some of Tesla's patents4. Marconi used 17 of tesla's patents when demonstrating his marvelous feat5. He was the inventor of fluorescent lights, we may say "Edison invented the electric bulb", shortly after Edison invented his now defunct electric bulb tesla invented fluorescent bulbs.6. He is the godfather of robotics, he thought of the human body as walking flesh bone objects, so why not create metallic bots whom you could control wirelessly?7. He died in his The New Yorker apartment broke because he did not have money even to spend on medicine and refused to see a doctor, when he died he was hallucinating about a white pigeon, and was on the diet of crackers. A tragic end to one of the most visionary person to live on this Earth.8. He invented X Ray decades before they were officially invented, and he had noted that they were dangerous to our health, Edison reportedly had almost gone blindOn a rare occasion, Edison attended a conference where Tesla was speaking. Edison, hard of hearing and not wanting to be spotted, slipped into the back of the auditorium to listen to the lecture. But Tesla spotted Edison in the crowd, called attention to him and led the audience in giving him a standing ovation.Seifer qualifies it more, saying the two had a love/hate relationship. At first Edison dismissed Tesla, but came to eventually respect him, he said.“When there were fires at Tesla’s laboratory, Edison provided him a lab, so clearly there was some mutual respect,” Seifer said8 Things You Didn't Know About Nikola Tesla | The Rundown | PBS NewsHourand ironically Tesla got an Edison medal :D :PHe never got the Nobel prize however.It’s rumoured that Albert Einstein was once asked, “How does it feel to be the smartest man alive?”, he responded, “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.” High praise indeed, yet why is it that people such as Einstein are so remembered and revered while Nikola Tesla, inventor of alternating current, are left to history’s doldrums?Nikola Tesla: Smartest Man Alive Stolen From History?For a better insight on Tesla,Suraj Patil's answer to What should everyone know about Tesla?Every unit of electricity we consume is a tribute to the great man, who lived in a world where people didn't understand his inventions, after nearly a century we are starting to realize how great he was, however he still is the true Dark KnightNikola Tesla was born midnight of 9'th and 10'th July 1856 Born in an orthodox family in what is now known as Croatia his father was a priest and his mother was an illiterate but intelligent house wife.It is said that he inherited his intelligence from his mother who albeit didn't study was very inventive herself and she designed various instruments for easing her work and though illiterate she had the ability to recite complete Serbian poems at will. [1]His father being an Orthodox priest wanted him to be a priest as well, but young Nikola Tesla wanted science, as a child he was a frail one so he used to be bedridden for most of the time and once he was near death because of cholera, only then did his father relented to let him study science, and it is said that he felt relief when he heard to the poems of Mark Twain and it led him to miraculous recoveries, albeit it is still a mystery that how did Mark Twain's poems reach a remote Serbian library at that time for he hadn't written anything famous.He went to school but studied only the subjects that he was interested in and never wrote any notes as such, this is the reason why he couldn't complete his education because he was bored to draw anything in the drawing class, he used to visualize everything in his brain. He used to perform integral calculus in his head thus prompting his teachers to think that he was cheating. [2]Once in his childhood he built what he would call a precursor to his wingless motor to generate electricity.As every one had to serve in the military so was he called for, but once he was registered he ran away and roamed the mountains, his family pulled some strings and was able to exempt him from the military service given his frail health. He later claimed that the nature bonding experience helped him in many ways and broadened his imagination.Before coming to US he already had his legendary insight on developing ACIn 1882 he worked for Continental Edison Company France, from where he was sent to meet Edison by Charles Batchelor, who in his letter to Edison wrote, "I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man" [3], Edison was impressed. At that time he was sent to fix some ships which ran on Edison's DC.Later Tesla was promised $50K to fix and redesign Edison's DC motor, he worked for day and night and later he did design them better than Edison, and when he asked for his reward Edison replied, you don't understand our American humor Tesla, he threatened to resign to which Edison said he would hike his salary to $18 from $10, but he resigned.Then he licensed his AC patents to George Westinghouse, whose company then started lighting the streets of America by AC, the royalty he was to receive was $2.4 per watt AC electricity produced, later when he was to get his first 1 million $, Westinghouse company had financial difficulties and the investors/bankers forced George Westinghouse to cancel the deal with Tesla for they would be bankrupt if they had to pay him 2.4$ per watt, so Tesla came to his cabin, George who was an inventor himself said that this was the worst interview of his life. Tesla's reaction to George was Mr Westinghouse, you have been a loyal friend and a believer in my work when i was ridiculed my almost everyone you take my patents and lighten the world and continue your work, [and tore the agreements] saying do you need me to do anything else?He came up with the idea of Radar, which is credited to a British inventor, he proposed to use rays to detect objects under water, which now we know as sonar but his proposal to the Defense dept was refused because Edison was their head of R&D and he commented that it is not practical invention.He experimented with X-rays and was the first one to advocate their drawbacks, and correctly identified their drawbacks, Edison on the other hand killed his attendant due to over exposure and nearly blinded himself due to over exposureAll his life Tesla was struggling for money because he invented devices which were far ahead of his time.Tesla had the patent of transmitting power through the atmosphere even before the atmosphere was discovered, and that shows his genius.He considered that the universe is filled of aether and that electricity flows. In his time electricity was considered at par with black magic and an dangerous entity thanks to the idiot whom we know was the inventor of the electric bulb, who carried on a smudge campaign against the superior AC for his personal advantage, later the company that he started as Edison electric company, which now is known as General Electric by subterfuge licensed AC and did or tried to use electricity instead of hanging, to further smudge AC.he invented fluorescent lights which we use today (edison improved upon the work of 22 men and sold his electric bulb which was doomed ), and had done many inventions, one was a new way to improve the efficiency of Copper extraction, unfortunately the only problem was to get the quality of steel he needed which came into market some 50 years later.He held the patents which were used for the invention of the transistors, he was the first person to propose the use of mechanical men the ones we now call robots,gave the first demo of a working robot which he controlled wirelessly from a long distance.He experimented with cryogenic engineering nearly a decade before its official inventor, several inventors marvelled at his work when they used to get and idea and search for patents and used to find a patent to Nikola Tesla some 50 years before.he designed the first cyclotron, at that time they didn't call it a cyclotron.His public demonstration were very famous and scientists aren't even now able to understand how he did in his public demosIn Colorado Springs he went to research on electricity, it was there he experienced strange things, he claimed he could hear storms from miles away and at one time he was able to listen to the flap of the wings of a fly [4].He designed wireless electricity transmission, and when John Pierpoint Morgan (yes he is the Morgan in Morgan Stanley) refused to pay him the necessary money to fund his work because Tesla had not told him the real purpose of the famous Wanderclyff towers apart from his world telegraph it was a tower to transmit electricity wirelessly to the world, why would Morgan fund the work which would put his recently putelectricity wires out of business?Apart from many many inventions which would change the world or be the subject of curiosity of scientists even now, Tesla knew 8 languages and he could recite books at will, he had a photographic memory, he invented the tesla coil, without which it was not able to achieve the required voltage at the Electrical labs. Now know as IEEE previously the American Institute of Electrical Engineers gave him the Edison medal, [actually he was insulted by that medal because Edison should have been given a Tesla medal!], he refused to receive the medal and only relented a long time after urging from his close friend.He was to be awarded the Nobel prize with Edison, which there are reports that he refused to get with Edison, albeit there are reports that Edison refused to get, we'll never know for sure.He valued his American Citizenship over every other honor that he had received.The emperor of Serbia, in the world war one came to meet him in his NY apartment when he was ill during his last days, he said to his emperor that this was the greatest privilege he had till now.When he had to pay his attendants and once he didn't have any money, he gave his Edison medal and cut it into two pieces but his employees refused to take his medal.When Marconi sent his first telegraph, tesla was asked about his work, tesla replied, he is a good man, let him continue his work, he is using 17 of my patents.later in his life when he was asked about what he felt about Marconi and others stealing his patents he saidLet the future tell the truth and evaluate each one on his work and accomplishments.The present is theirs, the future for which i have really worked, is mine.and he said, "Marconi is a donkey".He died in his The New Yorker apartment broke because he did not have money even to spend on medicine and refused to see a doctor, when he died he was hallucinating about a white pigeon, and was on the diet of crackers.Due to people stealing his patents he grew over protective about them and shared his work with no one. He is the father of Radio, the Supreme Court of US judged six months after he died in his favor about his case on Marconi.He was the first person to receive waves from outer space, and he was the first person to design an electric car, he also designed a plane for single passenger but his work was destroyed in his lab fireAbove: Experimental Station at Colorado Springs where the first wireless transmission experiments were preformed (1899-1900).Above: Tesla sits below the Tesla Coil in his Colorado Spring Laboratory. The coil creates millions of volts of electricity with a frequency rate of 100,000 alterations per second.and we all must know that he was a genius who wasn't able to do his work because the world wasn't developed enough to understand what he did. It took centuries for people to understand his work, alas the inventor had died.