You know you’re a bad ass when you have a unit of measurement name after you!
Born July 10th 1856 in what is now Croatia, Nicola Tesla was a little wild for science. Electromechanical Engineer is only one crown he wears. Take a moment and look around you. Are you bathed in light that rarely flickers on and off sporadically, enjoying radio, cell phone, stereo, remote controls etc? Then you have Nicola Tesla to thank for it. Ballistics, radar,computer science, leaps in theoretical & nuclear physics. Yeah, step up to productivity. Despite the fact that you’ve probably been taught to believe you should bow down to Thomas Edison for all the electronic wonders that have evolved around you… that make your life comfy-fluffy-pillows… you in fact need to drop a few nickles in a well for Nicola. Pour a little malt liquor on the corner, damnit!
To say Nicola was one intense bachelor of high geekery would be selling him short to some extent. Mad-crazy intelligent, he spoke 8 languages: Serbian, Latin, Italian, Czech, English, Hungarian, French and German. Yet, despite being one of the sexiest men of super science at the time he actually swore off sexual relationships. This guy really meant for science to be his main love and passion.
Do a little digging when you get some spare time and you’ll also find a standing feud with Thomas Edison, a flurry of patent war antics and some amazing pics of this guy playing with lightning and what not. There’s a town in Colorado that played host to Nicola and boy do they have a thing or two to say about Nicola and his projects. Turn on a bit of Tom Waits’ album Bone Machine to the track “What’s He Building Down There” and that’s like a theme song for sai Tesla.
