From the moment that we wake-up till the time we go to bed, each and every one of us use technology who's fundamentals were invented by a man named Nikola Tesla. Why would a man responsible for so many of our modern comforts be so unknown?

Tesla was raised in a small town in Croatia. His father was a former officer in the army, and his mother was a homemaker. After his education as an electrical engineer, he worked several jobs before traveling to the United States. Shortly after his arrival to the US, Tesla patented his induction motor and polyphase generator.

In the United States, Tesla first worked for Thomas Edison, and later for George Westinghouse. Westinghouse promptly bought all of Tesla's patents for a total of one million dollars.

After leaving Westinghouse, Tesla began to conduct experiments on wireless power transmission and free energy. The Tesla coil was one of the many results of his wireless experiments. Perhaps for better of humankind, his dream of wireless power died with him.

Tesla went on to claim to have made an anti-gravity device, a death-ray, and a cloaking device, although none of these claims were ever truly confirmed. In June of 1943, he died a lonely and penniless man. In 1956 the tesla, a unit of magnetic flux density in the metric system, was named in his honor.