To: carmenbmw
"I mean this in all sincerity, was Tesla a bad guy?
I know that he was a brilliant kook, but did I miss something in the history?"
A good man I would say. He championed alternating current electricity and essentially the entire electrical system of the world is based upon it. Alternating electricity at high frequency is what makes your computer work. He was some guy. Check him out.
54 posted on
07/06/2006 8:31:52 PM PDT by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: Nuc1
I have read about him for quite some time. Interesting fellow. I will never look at my electrical sockets in the same way again.
58 posted on
07/06/2006 8:35:30 PM PDT by
carmenbmw
(My cats name is Mean. He earned it.)
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