Nikola Tesla said he could build, improve, and operate machines in his mind before making them real, and the surprise is what that reveals about imagination — not fantasy or escape, but a private laboratory where the future sometimes arrives first, and not always accurately

In his memoir, Nikola Tesla described a working method that sounds almost too clean to believe. “When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination,” he wrote. “I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.” He claimed he could run a machine this [...] The post Nikola Tesla said he could build, improve, and operate machines in his mind before making them real, and the surprise is what that reveals about imagination — not fantasy or esc