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I met YET ANOTHER AMERICAN who knows who Thomas Edison is, yet hasn’t even the vaguest idea who Nikola Tesla is. xD

Thomas Edison ~PALED~ in comparison to Nikola Tesla. What gives?

Tesla coils right? What else did he do? 

Alternating Current =D

The man was THE electricity genius. From his earliest memories, his visualization were so vivid that he couldn’t tell the difference between something he was picturing in his head and something he was seeing with his eyes. He could visualize entire machines in front of him—every piece and part. He was able to invent enormous, complex machines to generate electricity. He discovered a way to power objects without wires (ie., wireless electricity); he theorized that electricity could be harvested from the atmosphere itself, without need for non-renewable fuel sources. He provided many absolutely genius developments in the early field of electromagnetism. He invented the death ray—the frick’n death ray! His work had direct, notable influence on robotics, remote control, radar, computer science, nuclear physics, ballistics, and theoretical physics. Scientists are still only now beginning to understand and integrate his work. And, he was in general one of the most fascinating individuals to have ever lived! =D

To be fair to Edison, his work was prolific. Edison worked very hard, and the sheer volume of work he accomplished in his life was amazing. But the depth with which Tesla understood the fundamental electric laws was so great—well, he was a man so far ahead of his time that I’m not even sure he’s yet to have been born in this world =P

If Thomas Edison was merely a genius, Nikola Tesla was a monster—a magnificent, gentle, severe monster, beyond the realm of super-genius. 

One reason Tesla seems to be underappreciated is that some of his theories (namely, his ideas about ether and the gravitational field) were seemingly in contradiction to some of Einstein’s theories (general relativity), so at some point in history it became a popularity contest—and Tesla was never really a popular man. He was disliked by a lot of people, because he was quite an intense and eccentric man. In the end, Tesla’s ideas are now being taken quite seriously, and are not in as much seeming contradiction to Einstein’s general relativity as earlier believed. 

In terms of IQ, there are a few individuals throughout history who’s estimated IQ exceeds the ‘~210’ limit, after which IQ becomes highly speculative, and intelligence largely unmeasurable. However, if William James Sidis—a well-known math prodigy—had an estimated IQ of 250-300, then it’s reasonable to assume (given qualitative similarities, scope of work, depth of insight, etc.) that Nikola Tesla would have been in the same class (ie, 250-300 IQ). 

Crazy brilliant!