[Joe 6-pack]

Tesla Statue at Niagara Falls

As one of eastern-european descent, I've long admired his brilliance...

[archy]

My grandfather was a senior officer with Western Electric, responsible for the laying of transatlantic phone cables and other major Bell System eastern seaboard projects. He was a personal acquaintance of Thomas Edison, and held a couple of patents on the use of underwater propulsion by electrical motors from his own research.

In the early 1970s, he was interviewed for the Bell company magagine Bellcore and was asked what he'd have done differently had he known in the early days of his career what he knew at the end of it.

*Well, we should have listened to Tesla,* he said. *We'd be living in a completely different world....*