Scientists Tesla and Faraday laid groundwork for wireless

摘要

Pioneers honored in company names Some ideas heralded as futuristic are actually more than 100 years old. In 1833, long before modern consumers were charging their mobile phones and toothbrushes wirelessly, Michael Faraday was experimenting with the physics of inductive charging. And in the first decade of the 20th century, mercurial Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of powering the world's industries wirelessly from a giant tower on Long Island.