The other day I saw a clip from the History Channel of how Tesla was asked by the American government to create a death ray. The one he thought up was strong enough to destroy a city.Before this went through, he was hit by a car and lost all memory of his plans. He also came up with an idea for planes that fly on radio waves and not gas. He even went so far as to build a huge radio tower, but he ran out of money before he could test it. I faintly remember him in that computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert in which there was a weapon designed after him called the Tesla Coil, boy oh boy were those cool. Here is a picture of the Tesla coil.

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