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This guy was so much more brilliant than Edison.
In some regards, Edison was a punk and a copycat.
***Stanford White of McKim, Mead, and White in New York.***
Ah yes, the Stanford White of THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING scandal. Shot dead by her hubby.
The entire North East is still being powered by Tesla’s first power plant.
Morgan Jr was a short-sighted prick. We could sure use a man like Tesla today. My abdo-lute hero. Halfway through Margeret Cheney’s book for the third time. His contributions to the science of electricity have molded the way we live today!
The Wardenclyffe Tower.
Thank God he convinced Morgan that AC was the way to go for powering the home. But such a shame that he died broke.
This was nice.
I am looking for this
I don't know why, but all the far out mega-conspiracy nuts seem obsessed with Tesla. Some anti-Semitic organizations sell copies of his notes in both English and the original Serbo-Croatian. No, I'm not saying Tesla was an anti-Semite. Anti-Semites do seem fascinated with him, however.
Another eccentric character (not as important as Tesla, but fifty times nuttier) was Edward Leedskalnin, the subject of my favorite In Search Of . . . episode (available on YouTube!).
I mean, it wouldn't have to be anything as overwhelming as AC electricity, an improved lollipop stick would suffice....
Mark Twain in Tesla's lab
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A very good movie, "The Prestige", has Tesla portrayed by David Bowie. Also in the movie are Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Scarlett Johannsen.
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Song: Edison's Medicine
Artist: Tesla
Album: Psychotic's Supper
Year: 1991
(You would think this song would be on the album "The Great Radio Controversy" but it's not)
Lyrics:
You're guilty of crime in the first degree,
Second and third as well.
My jury finds you'll be serving your time
When you go straight to hell.
'Cause he was Lord of the Lightning,
Though "socially fright'ning",
But never out to sell.
Their nickels and pence
Meant more than did sense,
And not the sensible thing.
Nor did the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
All along, world was wrong. You was right.
All that he saw, all he conceived,
They just could not believe.
Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,
Along with number three.
He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic,
"New Wizard of the West."
But they swindled and whined that he wasn't our kind,
And said Edison knew best.
He was the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
Said you was outta your mind!
You took a shot and it did you in.
Edison's medicine.
You played your cards, but you couldn't win.
Edison's medicine.
I spent twelve years of hard time,
More like the best years of my life.
Never heard or read a single word
About "the man" and his "wicked mind."
They'll sell you on Marconi.
Familiar, but a phony.
Story goes they sold their souls
And swore that you'd never know...
About the man outta time, man outta time.
Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.
Man outta time, man outta time.
Swore you was outta your mind!
You took a shot and it did you in.
Edison's medicine.
You played your cards, but you couldn't win.
Edison's medicine.
