Why is Nicola Tesla's life considered so mysterious?
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FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY TESLA LIFE IS CONSIDERED MYSTERIOUS
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•The thought camera.
Tesla may have thought about inventing a machine to read mental imagery and thoughts. In September 1933, he told reporters about several projects he had been working on, including a device that concerns "photographing of thought."
"I expect to photograph thoughts," Tesla said. "In 1893, while engaged in certain investigations, I became convinced that a definite image formed in thought, must by reflex action, produce a corresponding image on the retina, which might be read by a suitable apparatus.
•Livestreamed video
Tesla may have had a good grasp of what it feels like to watch real-time streaming of video on modern-day laptops and smartphones. Jan. 26, 1926, Tesla predicted that by applying the principles of radio, future devices will enable people to carry a small instrument in their pockets to see distant events.
Tesla says, "We shall be able to witness the inauguration of a president, the playing of a World's Series baseball game, the havoc of an earthquake, or a battle just as though we were present."
•Wireless electricity
Perhaps the greatest ambition of Tesla was his dream to wirelessly transmit energy across long distances, using only air as a medium. He demonstrated it was possible to wirelessly light up lamps using a method called inductive coupling, but he wasn't successful in building a long-range system to broadcast energy.
But now, researchers have refined and developed several techniques that may have brought Tesla's dream a few steps closer to reality.
•Contact with aliens?
In 1899, Tesla picked up peculiar radio signals on his instruments. He believed the signals were extraterrestrial in origin.
"The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another," Tesla wrote.
The scientific community didn't believe Tesla had made contact the aliens, but later, it was suggested that he may have picked up cosmic radio waves, a phenomenon that was not known at the time.
•Cellphones
In 1901, when working on creating trans-Atlantic radio, Tesla proposed what now sounds like a modern-day cellphone to his funder, J.P. Morgan. The idea was to create a plan for a "World Telegraphy System" that allows instant communication of news to individual handheld devices.
Tesla believed Morgan could make money by manufacturing such receivers that could be used by anyone, and could pick up voice messages or music played in distant places.