The invention of hydropower, X-rays, Tesla should have long been recognized

Because of his eccentric personality and incredible claims about the development of science and technology, Tesla was isolated and considered a mad scientist at the end of his life.

Tesla is probably the great inventor that you haven't heard of in a long time.

One might recognize the name Tesla was given to the famous electric car company, or the main character in the movie "The Current War: Director's Cut" starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas. Edison. All of this is inspired by Nikola Tesla, who is more famous for her talent than is acknowledged by history.

He is a visionary scientist who develops the basis for today's widely used alternating current, and is at the forefront of many technologies that improve everyday life. Originally from Siberia, moving to New York City in 1884, Tesla holds about 300 patents throughout his career.

"There is no modern gadget we enjoy today without the hand of Tesla , " said Marc Alessi, CEO of the Tesla Science Center in Wardenclyffe, New York, USA.

Tesla's 300 inventions can change human history.(Photo: Etsy).

Alternating current

This is the technology that caused the battle between Tesla and Edison.

In 1884, Tesla left Europe to work for Edison, after being promised a $ 50,000 lease to improve direct current. Of course, the alternating current of Tesla proved superior. It can be reversed many times per second, easily converted into high or low voltage electricity.

"Tesla has been working hard for 20 hours a day. He always tries to persuade Edison to switch to alternating current," Alessi told CNN, " Eventually, Edison did not pay Tesla, saying his promise only is a joke. Tesla gave up ".

Physicist Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) is looking at a light bulb.(Photo: Getty).

According to the US Department of Energy, Edison did not want to lose the royalties obtained from existing DC patents. Therefore, he downplayed the reputation of Tesla's alternating current with a media campaign that this type of electricity was very dangerous.

Edison even included cases of electrocuted animals to increase the risk of alternating current. In response, Tesla publicly tested the 250,000 volts AC passing through itself to show it was safe.

Today, the popularity of alternating current proves the greatness of Tesla. AC power is used in refrigerators, electric appliances, fans, etc., while DC is still used in some types of industrial machinery, but requires more maintenance.

Radio waves

History notes Italian businessman Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of the radio. But sometimes history is wrong.

Marconi sent the first transatlantic radio link, but it used technology from 17 Tesla patents. Another fighting is going on here.

Italian electrical engineer, Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi.(Photo: Getty).

Finally, the US Supreme Court revoked Marconi's radio patent in 1943 to support Tesla and scientists Oliver Lodge and John Stone. Unfortunately, Tesla and Marconi have died before.

"Tesla is the one who set a new milestone for wireless technology , " said Ivana Zoric, curator of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. "Tesla is the man who invented the 20th century."

Remote control

If you can take a seat now, don't need to leave your chair to switch TV channels, you have to thank Tesla. He invented one of the earliest remote control devices in the world, what he called "teleautomaton".

The device, patented in 1898, was used by Tesla to control a miniature boat remotely during an electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden.

According to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Tesla knows how important this invention is, so he has also filed patents for it in 11 countries.

X-ray

Tesla is a pioneer in X-ray technology. He took some of the first X-ray images of the human body, what he called "shadowgraphs". He was also one of the first scientists to hypothesize that X-rays could be harmful.

Most of us only know X-rays found by researcher Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen without knowing that Tesla is also a pioneer in studying this type of light.(Photo: Everett Colection).

According to an academic paper published in 2008 on Radio Graphics: "Every radiologist knows Nikola Tesla's research in the field of electromagnetism . but few know Tesla has experiments on X ray".

However, people also do not forget the efforts of Tesla. His name is given to the unit of magnetic induction intensity in the international measurement system.

Hydroelectric

Tesla is a big name in the renewable energy industry. Nine of the 12 patents used to design one of the first hydroelectric plants in the world, built at Niagara Falls, New York, belong to Tesla.

"As a child, Tesla's uncle read him a book about Niagara Falls. The first thing he thought was about energy. Water falling with him was energy , " explained Alessi.

Part of Niagara Falls area in New York, USA.(Photo: Worldofwaterfalls).

In the early days of people using fossil energy for the industrial revolution, Tesla said: `` That's not the way we should go. It is polluted and not durable. "

According to the Tesla Science Center, Tesla wants to develop clean energy because he understands the physics behind energy, along with what might be in the future. Even in its time, Tesla has proposed the use of renewable energy sources such as water, wind and the Sun.

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