Nikola Tesla was born in July of 1856 in the small Croatian village of Smiljan. He was a scientist within the same rank as Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, but with much less credit to his name when he was alive.
Tesla had many pioneering inventions that never left the prototype phase while he was alive, but these blueprints were proven worthwhile years after his death. In 1899, he was the first person to attempt to communicate with neighboring cilivizations using radio waves.
He was at his lab in Colorado Springs working on recording electromagnetic disturbances. He was using a 280-foot tower, which he built by himself, to drive surges of power into the ground in order to record their paths. Read the full story here ▶
