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Failed Inventions Documentary Cars with nuclear engines, or turbine engines, amphibious cars, all were unable to find traction (pun intended). Flying cars are another breed of vehicle that didn’t really soar (pun intended). How about rocket belts? As we may recall, they fizzled (pun, blah, blah). Even Thomas Edison had his flops, like a device […]

In this comic style infographic created by The Oatmeal, Nikola Tesla is shown to be the genius that he was. Tesla invented alternating current, radar, remote control, neon lighting, the modern electric motor, and more. This graphic has the added bonus that Thomas Edison is shown to be the creep that he was, too. More […]

Nikola Tesla-The Greatest Mind of All is from the History Channel’s Modern Marvels series. Tesla was a genius, no doubt many years ahead of his time. He invented radio transmission before Marconi, worked with x-rays before Roettgen was granted a Nobel Prize for doing the same, invented radar before others were officially credited, came up […]