Jesus! The comments are terrible! They made Tesla as if he was crazy, stupid, mad...<p>Most of them heard about him from the movies. I guess that is what you get when you are not looking into making the world's biggest companies, but into contributing the society. No one will hear about you.<p>In Tesla's museum in Belgrade, his notes are absolutely stunning. He invented the radio (later development leading to TV), remote control (tele-commanding a boat model), generator and polyphase AC... It is interesting to note the work that is leading towards the revolution Einstein is known for.. Tesla was a mean hundreds of years before his own time, and while moving towards the final "theory of relativity", his work suddenly stops, and is being scratched off. He never was an inventor of weapons, and it is claimed that he knew where such invention could lead. After all, what good did Einstein do? Millions killed, and devastating nuclear waste from energy extractions.<p>The only war-kind of invention was the EM shield that could protect a whole country from attacks, and he was proposing it to the Serbian king in Belgrade.<p>Basically he is behind everything we geeks care about today. Yet, he is considered "American"??? Until his last day he was loyal to the king, the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians later to be Yugoslavia. He was not born in Austro-Hungaria, as the region was invaded by them at the time after the lengthy wars, later to evolve in the WWI. He was a Serbo-Croatian.<p>Americans used him, stole all of his patents and made an image of him in public as a crazy man. Not a monument or anything until much later at Niagara through the efforts of the Yugoslavian immigrants in the US.<p>I want to high school in the US (senior year). Not one single person knew who he was, and everyone thinks Edison invented "electricity." Not much to complain actually, they also don't know who Alessandro Volta is, speaking of US education.<p>Thank God we've all heard of P Diddy.
We owe Nikola Tesla a lot. He was a genius and is one of my inspirations. If you don't know so much about him, see this:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LqxG49DLk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LqxG49DLk</a><p>Wireless power was one of his ideas and we are still only scratching the surface of that. There are so many more...