Nikola Tesla: The patron saint of geeks?

[simonwheeler]

A somewhat unkind headline (?) from the BBC website article

Born in what is now Croatia to Serbian parents, he moved to New York in 1884 and developed radio controlled vehicles, wireless energy and the first hydro-electric plant at Niagara Falls. But he was an eccentric. He believed celibacy spurred on the brain, thought he had communicated with extraterrestrials, and fell in love with a pigeon.

A possible biopic starring Christian Bale and directed by Mike Newell is doing the rounds of the Hollywood rumour mill.

[simonwheeler]

Hey ho...here we go...it's David Blaine, looking for more publicity I presume.....

US performance artist David Blaine is to spend three days and three nights amid an artificial lightning storm as part of his latest feat of endurance.
Beginning on Friday, he will stand surrounded by seven Tesla coils - electrical columns that shoot out small bolts of lightning - for 72 hours.

[Helen-Healing]

Just as a matter of interest, I came across this photo!

(Mark Twain in Tesla's lab in 1894. The inventor "cured" Mark Twain of his constipation with an electrical charge!!)

[Lyndon Ronstadt]

The inventor "cured" Mark Twain of his constipation with an electrical charge!!)

That'll be $50 Mr Twain and ,no, you can't keep the light socket.