Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th 1856 in Smiljan. He was the son of a orthodox priest (Father milutin tesla).

Nikola Tesla studied about the uses of alternating current (electrical engineering) and received Baccalaureate degrees at Graz.

In 1884 he moved to united states and sold his system of alternating current dynamos patent rights to George Westinghouse (Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh) in 1885.

He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Tesla’s patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

In 1891 tesla invented the Tesla Coil which is widely used in radio, television and electronic gadgets today. In the mid of 1898 Tesla invented teleautomatic boat guided by remote control.

Nikola Tesla was respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in the U.S. This was a direct result of all his hard work in the field of wireless communication (radio) in 1894.

The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field “B”), the tesla, was named in his honor (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960).

As well as the Tesla effect of wireless energy transfer to wirelessly power electronic devices which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale (lightbulbs) as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial energy levels in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.

Tesla inherited from his father a deep hatred of war. Throughout his life, he sought a technological way to end warfare. He thought that war could be converted into, “a mere spectacle of machines.”

In 1931 Tesla announced to reporters at a press conference that he was on the verge of discovering an entirely new source of energy. Asked to explain the nature of the power, he replied, “The idea first came upon me as a tremendous shock…

I can only say at this time that it will come from an entirely new and unsuspected source.” War clouds were again darkening Europe.

On 11 July 1934 the headline on the front page of the New York Times read, “TESLA, AT 78, BARES NEW ‘DEATH BEAM.’”

The article reported that the new invention “will send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 250 miles…”

Tesla stated that the death beam would make war impossible by offering every country an “invisible Chinese wall.”

Tesla hoped that his invention would be used for purely defensive purposes, and thus would become an anti-war machine.

His system required a series of power plants located along a country’s coast that would scan the skies in search of enemy aircraft.

Since the beam was projected in a straight line, it was only effective for about 200 miles — the distance of the curvature of the earth.

Whether Tesla’s idea was ever taken seriously is still a mater of conjecture. Most experts today consider his idea infeasible.

Though, his death beam bears an uncanny resemblance to the charged-particle beam weapon developed by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war.

Nonetheless, Tesla’s dream for a technological means to end war seems as impossible now as it did when he proposed the idea in the 1930s.

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