In it, Tesla relayed his amazing predictions for the future — a world of flying machines, wireless power, and female superiority. Some of the predictions were spot on. Others, not so much.

In 1928, famed inventor Nikola Tesla patented his own concept for an airplane. The airplane, which could take off and land vertically, was a forerunner of the U.S. military's V-22 Osprey.

Inventor Nikola Tesla appeared to have predicted artificial intelligence, describing futuristic technology equipped with its "own mind," in an article from 1900.