Thank Tesla for your phone!

Before you sell your old cell phone to update the latest and better option might be worth a little about the history of the technology to learn. For mobile phone users of a certain age, it seems that we have come a long way since the six-pack big bag phones of the 1980s.

But the truth of the matter is that wireless technology has progressed much more slowly than most people think. Some fans of Warehouse 13 and stubborn science geeks are the only ones that wireless technology has to know her first big push and international attention when Nikola Tesla began experimenting with the idea in the late 19th century. Know that the wireless charger for all your mobile devices? Tesla came in the 1890s with the idea.

One of the reasons for the appeal of a show like Warehouse 13 that it reveals scientific knowledge that might otherwise be lost to time. It makes science more fun and one of the ways learning as it makes with the devices, the agents Tesla's name, a kind of mobile phone with video chat features.

Imagine trying to sell your old cell phone, if it looks like!

The fact that wireless technology, and many other of Tesla's ideas, almost a century took the fact developed for practical applications is proved that the inventors and scientists a man out of time was. He developed all the parts that turn on for a man named Marconi in radio. In the 1940s, after Tesla died, recognized the US Supreme Court that he should be given credit for the invention of the radio. He also works with X-rays and invented radar experiments.

Although few people know the name of Nikola Tesla, and fewer still have any idea what he invented, to the availability of today's wireless technology - and have on many things we expect to come, like electricity in our homes - is a result of Tesla discoveries and inventions.

Another interesting aspect of Tesla's inventions was that he was very focused on renewable energy sources. He designed the original plan to harness Niagara Falls for hydroelectric power and suggested that solar energy should be many of our energy needs are used to cover. He designed but never implemented to send a plan of energy across the Atlantic wirelessly.

It can be fun to imagine how different the world would be if Tesla technology had assumed in his life. Then you might have difficulty trying to sell your old cell phone.