[dr_lew]

Tesla was of a different ilk. He had blazing insight, but never the theoretical ability to build on it. As a result, he was pretty much bypassed in the development of practical physics.

I stand to be corrected.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

The early Tesla was absolutely a genius in the field of electricity. His ideas, when combined with Westinghouse's manufacturing and marketing skill, literally made our modern electrical grid possible.

But by the time he was forty, he began to be possessed by bizarre and unworkable theories which sadly consumed the rest of his life as a scientist.