[El Conservador]

So, it's because of this guy that we now have mobile phone virii and trustafarians posting anti-American BS on Indymedia from their overpriced laptops sipping overpriced lattes at Starbucks?

Well, screw him!!! (/light-hearted sarcasm)

[paudio]

I believe Tesla is one of the most under-rated inventors...

[Jaysun]

Telsa deserves a great deal of credit for the tremendous productivity in American industry.

Just to name a few:
His principals led to the invention of RADAR
He invented the AC electric motors that we use today
He even invented the electronic ignition system for cars.

It's hard to believe that one guy could make so many meaningful contributions - he must have sold his soul to the devil.

[exit82]

I usually recoil from predictions, but I found these electrifying.

[Larry Lucido]

He wasn't all-seeing. He completely missed the enormous potential to access boobie pics at any time and from any location.

[martin_fierro]

An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant.

Ah, we had such lofty hopes, didn't we.

[SunkenCiv]

Tesla actually managed to build his power broadcasting prototype (mostly by his own hands). Eventually his company foundered, and the tower was demolished to make way for (if memory serves) a pickle plant.

Wardenclyffe:
http://www.teslasociety.com/teslatower.htm

[SunkenCiv]

vintage photo of tower:
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/td_tow2_pop.html

[SunkenCiv]

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic.? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

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