[kinoxi]

awe come on tesla built a death ray dontcha know? ;) the other people you mentioned were not exactly saints. ac current only won because of tesla's inventions(and the fact that it works better over long distances) that made it usable at the time. i wouldn't be able to type to you right now if it were not for edison, and by logical extension his mother, on mother's day :).

[GladesGuru]

All true, but the post basically sez Edison wasn't "nice". And that may be a sin, dontcha know?

;-)

[Reily]

As admirer of Tesla I agree completely with your statements about Tesla and AC. I am not claiming any of them were saints, (Tesla maybe becomes he certainly lived a ascetic life ! .... I also don't know if I believe the story that Tesla castrated himself because he didn't want thoughts of the opposite sex cluttering up his thinking! ...See I said he was weird !) Everybody did play a very sleazy hard-ball when it came to business in those days. Edison did seem to try to promote the 'saint-hood' idea for himself. I am unaware of any attempts to do likewise by the others. I also don't think you should forget about Steinmetz's contributions to you ability to type on that keyboard also !