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NIKOLA TESLA
(1856 - 1943)
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"Called a madman by someone, a genius by others, and an enigma by
nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the
world has ever known. He was, without doubt, a trail blazer who
created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming, devices that often
were virtually without theoretical precedent. It was Tesla who
introduced us to the fundamentals of robotry, computers, and missile
science and helped pave the way for such space-age technologies as
satellites, microwaves, beam weapons, and nuclear fusion. Yet, Tesla
still remains one of the least recognized scientific pioneers in
history.
Certainly he was one of the strangest of scientists-almost
supernaturally gifted, erratic, flamboyant, and neurotic nearly to the
point of madness. A dandy and popular man-about-town, he was admired
by man as diverse as George Westinghouse and Mark Twain and adored by
scores of society beauties. Yet his bewildering of compulsions and
phobias extended from such mundane subject as food and clean linen to
pearls and women's ears. He was fond of creating
neighborhood-threatening electrical storms in his apartment laboratory
and once nearly knocked down a tall building by attaching a mysterious
"black box" to its side. (He claimed he could have destroyed the
entire planet with a similar device.) And because he kept so few
notes, to this day we can only guess at the details of many of the
fantastic scientific projects that occupied his fevered intellect."
Adapted from the: "Man out of time" by Margaret Cheney
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