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.

Nikola Tesla - Coming to America ... a drawing of an idea for a flying machine, ... Tesla claimed that his working hours at the Edison Machine Works were 10:30 a.m. till 5 a.m. the next day.