Kirlian-like photographs 75 years before they became famous. All of this took place before 1900!' Tesla, and not Edison, invented the poly-phase alternators that power our modern civilization; and it was Tesla who was eventually awarded Marconi's wireless patents long after Tesla and Marconi were both dead. In all, Tesla contributed over 1200 patents, and we are currently using only some 200 of them. Near everyone remembers the Tesla Coil, but how many remember that he demonstrated wireless transmission of electric power prior to 1900? When offered to share the Nobel Prize with Edison for their electrical inventions, Tesla turned the prestigious award down Edison never received the Nobel Prize.