{"id":2081,"date":"2017-03-21T07:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:04:45","slug":"nikola-tesla-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/nikola-tesla-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Electrifying Facts About Nikola Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikola Tesla was a man of many talents, an electrical engineer, an inventor and probably one of the most astounding physicists in history<\/a>. His ideas were often ridiculed and mocked but as we know today this man has proven himself right many times.
\nWould you like to know more? There is much controversy about Nikola Tesla due to many documents written by him being locked up and hidden from the public by various countries. Many have tried to rediscover what tesla did but none have yet to succeed. Let\u2019s look at 2 facts<\/a> which make you wonder at what kind of man Nikola really was.<\/p>\n

1. 300 Patents<\/h2>\n
\"300

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Tesla was an inventor by heart and never lost his passion to create new and improved ideas. This was clearly show by the fact that he registered more than 300 patents. He became famous for developing alternating current and a few other things like X-ray, lighting and radar.
\nMany people do not know of his advanced in fields which he deemed secretive and often a lot of funding and testing would go into each idea to deem if it was valid or not. That being said not everything he tried turned out well\u2026<\/p>\n

2. Bad Omen<\/h2>\n
\"Bad

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Nikola Tesla was born in a village called Smiljan, in the modern day Croatia. On the day of his birth there was a harsh storm which rolled over the town. His parents were very superstitious and believed that the storm meant that their son was a bad omen and would not bring many great things.
\nHowever this was clearly wrong and Nikola Tesla unofficially became the child of light and proved himself to be one of the greatest minds of all time.<\/p>\n

3. Sworn Rivals<\/h2>\n
\"Sworn

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Tesla did not leave his town until the mature age of 28. Before then he had not lived anywhere else and therefore had a shielded view of the world and how modern technology of their time worked.
\nThomas Edison invited Nikola to come work for him on his inventions and ideas. \u00a0The two did not last long however due to Tesla trying out his own ideas which rivaled Edison. The two eventually parted ways and became sworn enemies.<\/p>\n

4. Kind of Crazy<\/h2>\n
\"Kind

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Tesla had some ideas which were more out there than others. One of these ideas was that his brain<\/a> was not a thinking brain but merely a receiver and that the universe was a core in which the knowledge, inspiration and strength were obtained from. He stated that he has not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but he knows it exists.
\nSome may believe in this and some may not but for a man that has such a brilliant effect on the world, it would be difficult to argue otherwise to most of his ideas.<\/p>\n

5. Developing Disorders<\/h2>\n
\"Developing

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Tesla was a social man but loved to create ideas when he was by himself. He would often take long walks in which he would think and puzzle his ideas in his head. This became somewhat of a hobby for him and would help him keep a clear mind.
\nAs time progressed over the years, Nikola found that he was not able to think clearly without going on walks by himself and ended up creating an obsession over it. Modern day doctors would call this OCD or Obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/p>\n

6. Numbers, Numbers, Numbers\u2026<\/h2>\n
\"Numbers,

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Tesla as one of his many interests had a huge interest in numbers. Often referred to as an avid numerologist, Tesla would obsess over the number three and would circle around a building three times before entering it.
\nThis can also be contributed to his OCD tendencies and proved to be a huge time waster for those who wanted to interact with him. It made those investing in his ideas become skeptical in how level headed Tesla really was.<\/p>\n

7. Black Knight Satellite<\/h2>\n
\"Black

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Tesla believed in aliens and was publicly open about his opinion on space and the universe. Many told him that believing in aliens was not a realistic concept and that he was wrong in that regard. However Tesla persisted and even tried to intercept signals from space.
\nPicking up signals from space was far beyond the technology developed at the time but Tesla still tried to intercept anything from space that was considered intelligent. The theory behind the whole idea is called \u201cthe Black Knight Satellite\u201d<\/p>\n

8. The Philadelphia Experiment<\/h2>\n
\"The

courtesy of: en.wikipedia.org<\/p><\/div>\n

Back in the day when testing new kinds of radar was interesting to Tesla, he decided to do an experiment which is now called the Philadelphia Experiment. The experiment did not have the expected outcome however. Originally it was Albert Einstein and Tesla who were asked to do an invisibility cloak for a US ship. This did not work out well.
\nWitnesses of the experiment said that the ship being tested just disappeared from radar but also disappeared completely and later reappeared with some of the crew being embedded into the metal of the ship.<\/p>\n

9. Spied On<\/h2>\n
\"Spied

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It is safe to say that Tesla was a brilliant man and often brilliant people are spied upon by government in order to make sure they don\u2019t discover something that could disrupt civilization.
\nOne of these experiments which was monitored was called \u201cthe death beam\u201d and had claimed to bring down numerous planes down from long distances. If this was true then the public has yet to see the patents due to it becoming classified information.<\/p>\n

10. Celibacy<\/h2>\n
\"Celibacy\"

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Tesla had said that he loved a girl once in his life when he was at a younger age. He chose not to pursue his love because according to him it became a obstacle in his path of research. For this reason he chose celibacy and did not get involved with another person intimately for the rest of his life. It is easy to say that research and knowledge were his only true loves.<\/p>\n

11. Electrifying Butterflies<\/h2>\n
\"Electrifying

courtesy of: mentalfloss.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Tesla had a free pass from a local electricity company in Colorado to use their grid to power his experiments. In return he would provide anything useful he discovered which could better electricity generation. He\u00a0obviously used this for the Tesla coil which would send a beam of artificial lightning through the air to a metal rod.
\nThe lightning would choose the path of least resistance when arcing. Tesla described butterflies who were caught in the process of having a halo around them. Coincidentally Tesla blew out several bolts at the power station when trying these experiments which later caused blackouts.<\/p>\n

12. Tesla Wireless<\/h2>\n
\"Tesla

courtesy of: undergroundscience.net<\/p><\/div>\n

Tesla came into speculation when he began building a massive tower on long island. The tower was 186-foot tall tower and when first built Tesla did not disclose much about why it was there.
\nIt was originally thought that He\u00a0wanted to beat Guglielmo Marconi at sending the first wireless message however when beaten Tesla revealed that his true motive was to transmit wireless power. The project failed due to financers pulling out after he was beaten to creating wireless transmission not concerning power.
\nNikola Tesla was a great mind who still to this day holds secrets behind classified information. Click here to see secrets that Tesla tried to reveal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nikola Tesla was a man of many talents, an electrical engineer, an inventor and probably one of the most astounding physicists in history. His ideas were often ridiculed and mocked but as we know today this man has proven himself right many times. Would you like to know more? There is much controversy about Nikola […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40323,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/40323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}