[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?

[cripplecreek]

Tesla was a good guy. Zots are a good thing for him.

[William Terrell]

brilliant kook

I wonder if this isn't a oxymoron. Usually, if a guy is brilliant, he's right, therefore not a kook. Little of his work has seen light of day since his death.

[Nuc1]

"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.

[Swordmaker]

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?

Actually, Tesla could be said to have invented ZOTS...

[Old Professer]

He was the epitome of indifferent deference; good and evil were concepts of a lower order to order of forces beyond the ken of ordinary folk, he imagined and made whole machines and concepts in spite of every insistence of the impossibility of their construction or existence.

He had a certain altruistic bent that fed on the fuel of pure discovery and made and lost a fortune without remorse.

None other like him have we seen nor shall we likely see again.

[Mr. K]

Tesla may have been one of most brilliant minds in history

At least 100 things you do every day are a direct result of him