Tesla's works and contributions to science were never included in my school's science curriculum. It wouldn’t be unfair to call him possibly the most underrated and underappreciated scientist of all time.

In many of his writings and publications, Tesla predicted the existence of many technologies that would make human life much easier in the future. Many of those technologies have turned out to be true. Here're some amazing predictions made by Tesla.

Tesla predicted the evolution of smartphones in 1926. Adding to that, he didn’t just predict how portable this device would be, but also how sophisticated it shall be.

When you analyze it properly, you understand that the man has made a perfect prediction of a cell phone with sophisticated features like long-distance communications, portability, face-time, and many more.

Tesla predicted the technology of fuel-less planes way before they evolved. We have developed solar planes, and planes that run on other alternative sources of energy. In his 1926 interview with Collier’s magazine, he stated a perfect prediction of such a technology.

Not just fuel-less planes, he also predicted the invention of electrified railroads:

Nikola Tesla also predicted the invention of wireless data transmission several years before the invention of the internet. He stated in the 1926 interview,

"Present wireless receiving apparatus will be scrapped for much simpler machines; static and all forms of interference..

... will be eliminated, so that innumerable transmitters and receivers may be operated without interference. It is more than probable that the household’s daily newspaper will be printed ‘wirelessly’ in the home during the night...

Domestic management — the problems of heat, light, and household mechanics — will be freed from all labor through beneficent wireless power."

Tesla, as you all might know by now, was extremely obsessed with wireless technology and devoted a great deal of time in his life to developing technologies that involved transmissions without wires.

In the above statement, he didn’t just predict the invention of the internet, or wi-fi but also imagined how it would be possible for humans to read, if not print, newspapers in their homes without an actual physical paper.

Tesla is credited for inventing alternating current, the radio, electric motors, and countless other inventions. His contributions to the science and scientific community were greatly unacknowledged during his time.

Along with the aforementioned predictions, he did several other predictions about 21st-century technology including robots, cheap energy, wireless transmission of energy, alternative resources, MRI scanners, flying cars, etc.

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@thePiggsBoson Tesla had an incredible mind. I was first introduced to his works at 13 and that book is still etched on my mind.

@thePiggsBoson Disagree, he was overestimated as a scientist. To predict something is not the same as inventing it. Nevertheless, as an engineer he had great inventions.

@thePiggsBoson Tesla denied the existence of the electron particle. Mistaken, or ahead of his time - again? 🤔