In Praise of the Mad Scientist [Genius Inventor Nikola Tesla]

The Village Voice ^ | January 4th, 2005 | Samantha Hunt

[fo0hzy]

Hmm.

I guess I was right aboot you.

[Darkwolf377]

Your argument is as invalid as mine. So nyah.

Nice try. You tried to wave off the other poster for his "glib" inclusion of Bush, when he was accurately commenting on the article.

You were wrong. Sorry to see you're not grown up enough to admit it.

[El Gato]

Tesla died penniless. All of his papers were consficated.

That doesn't logically rule out the possiblity that he made millions with Westinghouse. Ulitimately it was the Tesla/Westinghouse alternating current that won out over Edison's direct current system.

[fo0hzy]

Be sure to send me the link when you get it done... who knows... Art Bell might feature it ;)

[fo0hzy]

I'm not worng. Wrong.

[KoRn]

[Nipplemancer]

I'm a big fan of Tesla (the man, not the band). But this article was crap. Tesla was bad with money, but a big fan of capitalism. The author's segue into a mini-tirade on the president was unfitting and uncalled for.

[fo0hzy]

Edison and Tesla is another story.

[RadioAstronomer]

LOL! Yes! We pretty much killed all normal forms of RF comm from DC to light for a 10 mile radius! Cops told us if you ever lite it up again in a residential neighborhood, he would haul us in.

We didn't!! LMAO!!

[fo0hzy]

BTW - that doesn't negate the fact that his Apt was raided as soon as he was dead. And you'll never see those papers.

[RadioAstronomer]

Hehe!

They will be on my home page. :-)

[Moonman62]

Marconi stole Tesla's thunder, not to mention his dream.

Tesla stole Tesla's thunder. He had no interest in radio. At least Marconi turned the invention into something useful.

If Tesla had been able to chase his demons, who knows where we'd be this day.

Tesla did chase his demons and he ended up broke. It's too bad he didn't remain partnered with people who knew business better than he did.

[fo0hzy]

Thank God my GF isn't watching this thread. She'd swoon. lol

[longtermmemmory]

Hollyweird is only interested if he can be portrayed as a homosexual.

[Ready4Freddy]

Maybe they can show some of the arguments Edison & Tesla had over the future of AC vs DC.

[fo0hzy]

***he ended up broke.***

Uh huh.

*** Tesla stole Tesla's thunder. He had no interest in radio. At least Marconi turned the invention into something useful.***

Go to Google; enter the search string: tesla radio history

[Straight Vermonter]

I knew someone would beat me to it.

[Teslas Pigeon]

I would feel pretty bad if I did not post on this thread agreeing with everybody that Tesla was one of the great thinkers of the 20th century.

[RikaStrom]

Hmmmm

According to Spider Robinson, Tesla is alive and well at Callahan's. ;-)