Nikola Tesla was an inventor, engineer, scientist, and futurist. He was an underappreciated inventor who made significant contributions to the contemporary alternating current (AC) energy supply system. AC electricity, X-Rays, and radio are just a few of Nikola Tesla’s important innovations and accomplishments.

Here are some fascinating and little-known facts that you should be aware of.

1. In popular culture, Nikola Tesla was known as a “mad scientist.”

2. In 1882, Tesla began working for Thomas Edison. The key job for Tesla was to finish Edison’s direct current (DC) motors. Tesla had been promised 50,000 dollars by Edison if he could complete the design. When Edison improved the generators’ performance, he remarked, “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humour.” Due to Edison’s change in the offer, Tesla resigned immediately.

3. Tesla devised techniques to use and harness light by dispersing it and built the first neon lights by bending test tubes.

4. Tesla is the SI unit for magnetic flux. He was the one who first proposed the idea of the Earth being a magnet and that it generated energy.

5. It is thought that Tesla, not Marconi, was the one who came up with the concept of radio. The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1943 that Tesla’s patents were older than Marconi’s.

6. Tesla was the first to succeed in electromagnetic wave experiments, which led to the development of X-rays. He believed that all we need to know about the universe is always present, but that we must use our minds to see it.

7. Nikola Tesla was more concerned with inventions than with fame. Tesla also made significant contributions to the fields of computers and lasers.

8. Tesla Motors Inc., a California-based automaker named after Nikola Tesla.

9. The genius Nikola Tesla is acknowledged with the Nikola Tesla Award. The prize honours scientists and inventors who have made significant contributions to the field of electric power.

10. Nikola Tesla died of coronary thrombosis on January 7, 1943.

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