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Bubo · 10-23-2003, 11:09 AM

He was one of those professors that wants a minimal workload. The report was an informative research paper with Nikola Tesla as the subject. I gave him 48 pages of detailed information (no duplication or redundant content) with extensive citations. He had to read the whole thing (or at least he was suppose to) in order to give it a fair evaluation.

For those who don't know, Nikola Tesla is the reason we have the nice electronics we have today. He invented AC current (and had to fight most of his life against Thomas Edison because Edison wanted his invention of DC to be the preferred option), invented the radio (Marconi promptly stole and patented it), provided the lights for the first World Fair, managed to create a mini-earthquake in NYC by attaching an oscilating engine to a beam on one building, said that he had plans for a "death ray" that would allow him to write his name on Mars (and most people believe that he certainly had the capability of inventing this) and many many many many other things. He once went to Rockefeller with a plan that would power the entire globe, allowing anyone to sink a single metal rod into the earth and draw as much electricity as they want, anywhere. Rockefeller asked him how he was suppose to make money from this invention, and Tesla was so upset that he promptly destroyed the plans for it (Tesla had several mental imbalances). He is also one of the few (if not the only one) people to ever have the Supreme Court post-humously award ownership of a patent to him (Marconi was found to have stolen the idea for radio, and the patent was transferred to Tesla's name).

Tesla as a man is no less interesting, with numerous mental disorders and phobias. His inventions came in "visions", he couldn't stand the touch of human contact, had a very precise and anal-retentive methodology of preparing to eat a meal, and many many many more idiosynchrosies. There are also multiple eye-witnesses (including Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain) that witnessed him on serveral occassions pulling "balls of lightning" out of his pockets with his bare hands and performing tricks with them.

Now, to give you an even bigger idea of why Tesla was so amazing, he did all of this during his life span of 1856-1943.

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Bubo Inactive Join Date: 10-12-03 Posts: 356 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	He was one of those professors that wants a minimal workload. The report was an informative research paper with Nikola Tesla as the subject. I gave him 48 pages of detailed information (no duplication or redundant content) with extensive citations. He had to read the whole thing (or at least he was suppose to) in order to give it a fair evaluation. For those who don't know, Nikola Tesla is the reason we have the nice electronics we have today. He invented AC current (and had to fight most of his life against Thomas Edison because Edison wanted his invention of DC to be the preferred option), invented the radio (Marconi promptly stole and patented it), provided the lights for the first World Fair, managed to create a mini-earthquake in NYC by attaching an oscilating engine to a beam on one building, said that he had plans for a "death ray" that would allow him to write his name on Mars (and most people believe that he certainly had the capability of inventing this) and many many many many other things. He once went to Rockefeller with a plan that would power the entire globe, allowing anyone to sink a single metal rod into the earth and draw as much electricity as they want, anywhere. Rockefeller asked him how he was suppose to make money from this invention, and Tesla was so upset that he promptly destroyed the plans for it (Tesla had several mental imbalances). He is also one of the few (if not the only one) people to ever have the Supreme Court post-humously award ownership of a patent to him (Marconi was found to have stolen the idea for radio, and the patent was transferred to Tesla's name). Tesla as a man is no less interesting, with numerous mental disorders and phobias. His inventions came in "visions", he couldn't stand the touch of human contact, had a very precise and anal-retentive methodology of preparing to eat a meal, and many many many more idiosynchrosies. There are also multiple eye-witnesses (including Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain) that witnessed him on serveral occassions pulling "balls of lightning" out of his pockets with his bare hands and performing tricks with them. Now, to give you an even bigger idea of why Tesla was so amazing, he did all of this during his life span of 1856-1943.