Nikola Tesla / Free Energy

The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate "mad scientist," Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreamsor still await possible development.

The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century . . . fascinating.Scientific American

Nikola Tesla today is largely unknown and overlooked among the great scientists of the modern era. While Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb.

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television.

As the global need for clean, renewable energy intensifies and the shortage of viable large-scale solutions continues, it is time to look to the geniuses of our past and the visionaries of our future for answers.