Interesting Facts
- In 1898 Nikola Tesla, created what is called an oscillator. His device was unique and capable of causing earthquakes. With the creation of this machine, he almost destroyed a neighborhood in New York.
- He suffered from synesthesia, a condition where senses are associated together, such as when seeing a number, it will remind you of a certain colour.
- Tesla never married and never got involved in a relationship.
- Later on in his life, Tesla developed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
- He believed that in the future, women would become the dominant sex.
- In honor of Nikola Tesla, a unit to measure magnetic fields was named "Tesla's".
- He claimed to have built a "death ray", a weapon capable of firing large amounts of energy at great distances. The idea was considered a weapon to end all war.
- In 1886, Tesla started the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing Company. The business sold arc lamps and was a big success, but the investors of the company took most of the profit and then fired Tesla, forcing him to enter into manual labor to make money.
- Tesla was good friends with the writer Mark Twain.
- He claimed to have found a source of limitless power but never revealed what the source was.
- Many of his experiments have never been recreated even after over 100 years. In 1899 he built a machine from spare parts, and wirelessly turned on 200 light bulbs from a power source 26 miles away. The closest anyone has come to reproducing this, was in 2007 when a group of MIT students transmitted energy a distance of 7 feet.
- He suffered from synesthesia, a condition where senses are associated together, such as when seeing a number, it will remind you of a certain colour.
- Tesla never married and never got involved in a relationship.
- Later on in his life, Tesla developed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
- He believed that in the future, women would become the dominant sex.
- In honor of Nikola Tesla, a unit to measure magnetic fields was named "Tesla's".
- He claimed to have built a "death ray", a weapon capable of firing large amounts of energy at great distances. The idea was considered a weapon to end all war.
- In 1886, Tesla started the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing Company. The business sold arc lamps and was a big success, but the investors of the company took most of the profit and then fired Tesla, forcing him to enter into manual labor to make money.
- Tesla was good friends with the writer Mark Twain.
- He claimed to have found a source of limitless power but never revealed what the source was.
- Many of his experiments have never been recreated even after over 100 years. In 1899 he built a machine from spare parts, and wirelessly turned on 200 light bulbs from a power source 26 miles away. The closest anyone has come to reproducing this, was in 2007 when a group of MIT students transmitted energy a distance of 7 feet.