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There are multiple counts of how many patents were registered under Tesla's name such as the fickleness of patents and their low regulation levels in the 19th Century. Much of his work was destroyed in the fire of his laboratory. The fact he didn't document his ideas. Most say he had around 200 to 700 patents and that were involved in the making of things that are essential to modern life, such as
Wireless Electricity, Wireless Communications (Internet), Electric Motors, Tesla Coils, Neon Lighting, Remote Controls, Ball Lightning, Earthquake Detection Machine, the understanding of resonant frequencies on earth, the detection of radio waves from outer space, Transistors (an essential part of computers), Cryogenic Engineering, Hydroelectricity, X~Rays, Radar, and Radios. |
"My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain."- Nicola Tesla "My Inventions" |