Editing Nikola Tesla (section)

=== Other awards, patents and ideas ===
Tesla won numerous medals and awards over this time. They include:

* Grand Officer of the [[Order of St. Sava]] ([[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]], 1892)
* [[Elliott Cresson Medal]] ([[Franklin Institute]], US, 1894)<ref name="pg">{{cite book|last1=Goldman|first1=Phyllis|title=Monkeyshines on Great Inventors|date=1997|publisher=EBSCO Publishing, Inc.|location=Greensboro, NC|isbn=978-1-888325-04-1|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKOmiByD_X8C|language=en|access-date=14 May 2020|archive-date=23 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323123811/https://books.google.com/books?id=SKOmiByD_X8C|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Grand Cross of the [[Order of Prince Danilo I]] ([[Principality of Montenegro|Montenegro]], 1895)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Acović|first=Dragomir|title=Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima|year=2012|location=Belgrade|publisher=Službeni Glasnik|pages=85}}</ref>
* Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (US, 1896)<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Nikola+Tesla&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=American Philosophical Society |archive-date=11 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311152707/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Nikola+Tesla&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[AIEE Edison Medal]] ([[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]], US, 1916)<ref name="EdisonMedal">{{cite web|title=IEEE Edison Medal Recipient List|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/edison_rl.pdf|publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)|access-date=4 June 2022|archive-date=28 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128155822/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/edison_rl.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Grand Cross of the [[Order of St. Sava]] ([[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes|Yugoslavia]], 1926)<ref name="eserbia">{{cite web|title=Culture|url=http://www.eserbia.org/culture/lectures/288-nikola-tesla-and-the-serbian-orthodox-church-a-st-sava-s-day-reflection|website=www.eserbia.org|access-date=16 January 2017|archive-date=13 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213134050/http://www.eserbia.org/culture/lectures/288-nikola-tesla-and-the-serbian-orthodox-church-a-st-sava-s-day-reflection|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Cross of the [[Order of the Yugoslav Crown]] ([[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], 1931)
* [[John Scott Medal]] ([[Franklin Institute]] & [[Philadelphia City Council]], US, 1934)<ref name=pg />
* [[Order of the White Eagle (Serbia)|Order of the White Eagle]] ([[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], 1936)
* Grand Cross of the [[Order of the White Lion]] ([[Czechoslovakia]], 1937){{sfn|Cheney|2011|p=312}}
* Medal of the [[University of Paris]] (Paris, France, 1937)
* The Medal of the University St. Clement of Ochrida ([[Sofia, Bulgaria]], 1939)

[[File:Second banquet meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers.jpg|thumb|Second banquet meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 23 April 1915. Tesla is seen standing in the center.]]

Tesla attempted to market several devices based on the production of [[ozone]]. These included his 1900 Tesla Ozone Company selling an 1896 patented device based on his Tesla coil, used to bubble ozone through different types of oils to make a therapeutic gel.<ref>Anand Kumar Sethi (2016). ''The European Edisons: Volta, Tesla, and Tigerstedt'', Springer. pp. 53–54</ref> He also tried to develop a variation of this a few years later as a room sanitizer for hospitals.{{sfn|Carlson|2013|p=353}}

Tesla theorized that the application of electricity to the brain enhanced intelligence. In 1912, he crafted "a plan to make dull students bright by saturating them unconsciously with electricity," wiring the walls of a schoolroom and, "saturating [the schoolroom] with infinitesimal electric waves vibrating at high frequency. The whole room will thus, Mr. Tesla claims, be converted into a health-giving and stimulating electromagnetic field or 'bath.{{'-}}"<ref name="Gilliams">{{cite web |last1=Gilliams |first1=E. Leslie |title=Tesla's Plan of Electrically Treating Schoolchildren |url=http://www.teslacollection.com/tesla_articles/1912/popular_electricity_magazine/e_leslie_gilliams/tesla_s_plan_of_electrically_treating_school_children |via=teslacollection.com |work=Popular Electricity Magazine |date=1912 |access-date=19 August 2014 |archive-date=9 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109004431/http://www.teslacollection.com/tesla_articles/1912/popular_electricity_magazine/e_leslie_gilliams/tesla_s_plan_of_electrically_treating_school_children |url-status=live }}</ref> The plan was, at least provisionally, approved by then superintendent of New York City schools, William H. Maxwell.<ref name="Gilliams" />

Before [[World War I]], Tesla sought overseas investors. After the war started, Tesla lost the funding he was receiving from his patents in European countries.

In the August 1917 edition of the magazine ''[[Electrical Experimenter]]'', Tesla postulated that electricity could be used to locate submarines via using the reflection of an "electric ray" of "tremendous frequency," with the signal being viewed on a fluorescent screen (a system that has been noted to have a superficial resemblance to modern [[radar]]).<ref>Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, Jim Glenn, ''Tesla, Master of Lightning,'' pp. 128–129</ref> Tesla was incorrect in his assumption that high-frequency radio waves would penetrate water.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1JAeg1PiWIC&pg=PA154|title=Lewis Coe (2006). ''Wireless Radio: A History''. McFarland. p. 154|isbn=978-0-7864-2662-1|last1=Coe|first1=Lewis|date=8 February 2006|publisher=McFarland }}</ref> [[Émile Girardeau]], who helped develop France's first radar system in the 1930s, noted in 1953 that Tesla's general speculation that a very strong high-frequency signal would be needed was correct. Girardeau said, "(Tesla) was prophesying or dreaming, since he had at his disposal no means of carrying them out, but one must add that if he was dreaming, at least he was dreaming correctly".{{sfn|Cheney|2001|p=266}}

In 1928, Tesla received patent, {{US patent|1,655,114}}, for a [[biplane]] design capable of [[vertical take-off and landing]] (VTOL), which "gradually tilted through manipulation of the elevator devices" in flight until it was flying like a conventional plane.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tesla |first=Nikola |title=TESLA PATENT 1,655,114 APPARATUS FOR AERIAL TRANSPORTATION. |url=https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-patents-1,655,114-aerial-transportation |publisher=U.S. Patent Office |access-date=20 July 2012 |archive-date=20 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720092018/http://www.teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-patents-1,655,114-aerial-transportation |url-status=live }}</ref> This impractical design was something Tesla thought would sell for less than $1,000.{{sfn|Cheney|2001|p=251}}<ref name="airspacemag">{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/nikola-teslas-curious-contrivance-10187565/ |title='Nikola Tesla's Curious Contrivance' by A.J.S. RAYL Air & Space magazine, September 2006, reprint at History of Flight |publisher=airspacemag.com |access-date=10 September 2012 |archive-date=27 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127184244/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/nikola-teslas-curious-contrivance-10187565/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Tesla had a further office at 350 Madison Ave<ref>Valentine Korah, An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice, Sweet & Maxwell – 1928, page 235</ref> but by 1928 he no longer had a laboratory or funding.<ref name="airspacemag" />