[anymouse]

I say blame the Serbs*.

* Serbian born inventor Nikola Tesla designed the first modern Alternating Current power plant in Niagra, NY that harnessed the power of the river with famous falls.

More info. on Testla:

Nikola Tesla (Bill Beaty's Homepage)
http://www.amasci.com/tesla/tesla.html

Tesla - Master of Lightning
http://www.pbs.org/tesla
Tesla - Master of Lightning: Life and Legacy
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll

Nikola Tesla: inventor, engineer, scientist
http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla

The Tesla Wardenclyffe Project
http://www.teslascience.org

TESLA - THE LOST INVENTIONS
http://www.t0.or.at/tesla/teslatli.htm

Tesla Memorial Society of New York
http://www.teslasociety.com

NIKOLA TESLA 1856 - 1943
FORGOTTEN AMERICAN SCIENTIST
http://www.concentric.net/~Jwwagner

Jim Bieberich's Complete
Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent Collection
http://www.mall-usa.com/BPCS/tesla.html

Nikola Tesla - Inventor
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jul/tesla.html

Nikola Tesla - Man Out of Time
http://www.nickf.com/tesla.htm

Yaho Physicists - Nikola Tesla directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/science/physics/physicists/tesla__nikola__1856_1943_/

Nikola Tesla
http://www.mercury.gr/tesla/introen.html

FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Nikola Tesla
http://foia.fbi.gov/tesla.htm

[mdittmar]

Tesla did ac,I thought he had some other "perpetual motion","zero point energy" thing.

Always associated Tesla with "free energy",man I really have to read more.

[Libertina]

Nikola Tesla BUMP