Don Foreman wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:23:09 -0600, "Tim Williams"
wrote:


Yeah. Real shame the guy was such a nut and attracted these people
posthumously


This man you refer to as a nut invented the AC induction motor, and
the first practical system for generating and transmitting alternating
current for electric power. The commonly-used SI unit of magnetic
flux density is named after him.

Do you, 100 years later, understand how an induction motor works well
enough to call its inventor a nut? Perhaps you do. Good! We
need someone who has that level of expertise. I don't pretend to have
that level of understanding and I'm pretty sure neither Jerry Martes
nor Bob Swinney would either.

Telsa also claimed to have invented a death ray and a whole bunch of
similar stuff. Like Howard Hughes, by the end of his life the term 'nut'
was warranted.

--RC