Rada Radaković

Serbian inventor who revolutionized wireless energy transmission

Rada Radaković (1889-1942), a pioneering Serbian engineer, developed the first practical system for wireless electricity transmission decades before modern experiments. His 1928 "Resonant Induction Field" prototype could power devices within 30 meters without wires, using frequency modulation principles that predated Tesla's well-known Wardenclyffe Tower experiments.

During WWII, Radaković secretly collaborated with Yugoslav Partisans to develop portable wireless charging units for medical equipment in field hospitals. His "Lightning Tree" system (1941) used natural electromagnetic fields to harvest energy, documented in recently discovered journals at Belgrade University Archives.

Despite being erased from Cold War histories due to geopolitical tensions, modern physicists at CERN have validated 78% of his theoretical models in 2021 quantum energy transfer experiments. The IEEE Energy Transactions recently called him "the forgotten father of contactless power."