There's something empowering about creating things from scratch, taking a lump of clay and turning it into a beautiful sculpture, or mixing ingredients in just the right way to make some delicious cookies, or even just deciphering those god-awful IKEA directions to build a new bookshelf.

For those who don't know, my husband Gino is a renowned cobbler in San Francisco, as I like to call

him my soul man. He is a true craftsman. He specializes in restoring treasured pieces, whether it's a worn pair of your

Louis Vuitton shoes, a bag, a belt, or luggage, basically bringing them back to life with remarkable

skill. When you use resources right in front of you to create something that didn't exist before,

or bring something old back to life, it feels almost like a form of, well, magic.

I'm sure a lot of inventors throughout history felt the same way.

Like Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Hetty Lamar, and Steve Jobs,

they created life-changing new technology during their lifetimes. But one of the most fascinating and

mysterious of them all was Nikola Tesla. He's famous for building one of the world's first and

most efficient electric generators for designing automatic motors and lots of the equipment we

use in power plants and factories. But he also made some other miraculous discoveries, ones that never really hit the mainstream.

Things that were said to be so game-changing, so ahead of their time, that Tesla might have been killed because of them.

I'm Rasha Pecorero.

And I'm Yvette Gentile.

Welcome back to another ingenious episode of So Supernatural.

I'm Yvette. You can't understand the life of Nikola Tesla unless you have a sense of the world he lived in.

He came of age in the mid-1800s, right in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.

This was a time when major cities all over the world were adopting electricity,

when Charles Darwin shook the United Kingdom

by proposing the concept of evolution.

When people in Europe and the United States

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