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.

Nikola Tesla - Poet and Visionary ... This brilliantly designed flying machine resembled both a helicopter and an airplane. According to the inventor, the device would weigh eight-hundred pounds.

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.