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Mr. Luddite

On 12/21/2013 10:36 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:27:27 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/21/2013 1:43 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:05:41 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

By your $tandard$, Paris Hilton is more successful than Nikola Tesla,
who died in abject poverty

By just about any standard Paris Hilton is more successful. Tesla may
have been pretty smart but virtually everything he tried to do,
failed.

Financially, yes ... technically the guy was beyond genius ... which is
likely why he failed financially.

He literally knew just enough to be dangerous.
One of the schemes that drove him into bankruptcy was trying to "beam"
usable electrical power into homes with a megawatt transmitter and an
antenna on your roof.

Modern day experiments have proved his concept to be viable and
technically achievable.

He was a space shot, no question, but without him we'd have waited much
longer for induction motors and the distribution of AC power. If Edison
had his way, we'd be working off a horrible DC distribution system.