/sci/ - Science & Math

> Tesla claimed he had invented a motor that would run on cosmic rays.

> Tesla told reporters that, after thirty-five years of work, he was on the verge of producing proof of a new form of energy. He claimed it was a theory of energy that was "violently opposed" to Einsteinian physics, and could be tapped with an apparatus that would be cheap to run and last 500 years.

> Said he was working on a way to transmit individualized private radio wavelengths, working on breakthroughs in metallurgy, and developing a way to photograph the retina to record thought.

> he told reporters that a version of his oscillator had caused an earthquake in in downtown New York City in 1898. He said it could destroy the Empire State Building with 5 lbs of air pressure.

> a superweapon he claimed would end all war. He would call it "teleforce", but was usually referred to as his death ray.

> On questions concerning the death ray, Tesla stated, "But it is not an experiment ... I have built, demonstrated and used it.