Theoretical and Claimed Inventions
Tesla theorized about, planned to build, or claimed to have invented the following inventions.
- Wireless Transmission of Electricity: transmitted from power stations and received by antennae on houses and electric cars
- Electric Submarine
- Teleforce
- Death ray: destructive energy transmitter he claimed to have built - "when unavoidable... may be used to destroy property and life." --- Tesla, 1915
- Mechanical Oscillator: compresses air until the air is a liquid
- Free Energy: Renewable electricity and heat tapped from the natural energy sources (not energy created from nothing)
- Earthquake Machine: a pocket-sized device that could shake a house apart with building waves of energy.
- Force Field: a Scalar field dome made of energy that will eventually be built big enough to protect a city from attack during wars
- Tesla's Flying Machine: Another of Tesla's theorized inventions is commonly referred to as Tesla's Flying Machine, which appears to resemble an ion-propelled aircraft. Tesla claimed that one of his life goals was to create a flying machine that would run without the use of an airplane engine, wings, ailerons, propellers, or an onboard fuel source. Initially, Tesla pondered about the idea of a flying craft that would fly using an electric motor powered by grounded base stations. As time progressed, Tesla suggested that perhaps such an aircraft could be run entirely electro-mechanically. The theorized appearance would typically take the form of a cigar or saucer.
- Thought Camera: In 1933, Tesla theorized about a device that could photograph thoughts. "I expect to photograph thoughts... 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. This brought me to my system of television which I announced at that time..."
Read more about this topic: List Of Nikola Tesla Patents
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