Originally posted by hoppy
I just want to be the first to say it... TESLA!
www.mall-usa.com...
But Nikola Tesla didn't disappear. While he contributed to (or, more properly,
laid the foundation for) electrical/electronic/radio science
as we know it today, Tesla lived a full life — as much as he was an electrical
genius, he was a lousy businessman, and he never reached the
degree of celebrity of Thomas Edison. True, Edison couldn't even
approach Tesla on a scientific level, but Edison was a shrewd businessman
who spun his image as much as his inventions.
Tesla died in 1943, just before the U.S. Supreme Court found that he
was, in fact, the true
Father of Radio, a title that many
inventor/scabs (such as Marconi) fought for years to steal away from Tesla.
There's always been a lot of speculation about the
government loading up all of Tesla's belongings after his death and hauling it off to a
secret warehouse, supposedly to exploit his
particle weapon (the so-called "Death Beam") and other technologies (as in
The Philadelphia
Experiment). However, by the time Tesla died, he was pretty much a
crazy old man, and probably wasn't hiding or working on anything of
any value.
There's a good likelihood that Tesla may have even
ruined his own brain in his earlier years, when he was experimenting with
X-rays
before anyone even knew what the hell X-rays
were. Tesla himself called it "invisible light," and used to
test his apparatus on his own
head to produce X-ray images — he was probably blasting his brain with thousands of times more X-ray exposure than is considered safe today.
— Doc Velocity
[edit on 2/18/2007 by Doc Velocity]