Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!

[bananas]

Saw this graphic when I went to google,
they are celebrating his birthday:

[monmouth]

1. HA! My birthday today also.....sigh..n/t

[bananas]

2. Happy Birthday, monmouth!

:party: :party: :party:

[monmouth]

4. Many thanks bananas....n/t

[tomreedtoon]

3. Tesla worked for Westinghouse, a GOOD corporate guy.

Westinghouse treated his workers well. It was said that if all the heads of corporations treated their workers as well as Westinghouse, the American Federation of Labor wouldn't have been necessary. His worker housing was well-designed and had many amenities, unlike the concentration camps of other companies.

Westinghouse and Tesla also beat out Thomas Edison. Edison insisted that direct current was the best way to distribute electricity. Westinghouse proved him wrong, with alternating current able to be transmitted over much longer distances with less loss. (I won't get into the tech here.)

[rosesaylavee]

5. K & R

If that even works anymore...

[damntexdem]

6. Now that's shocking!

But I don't want to spark a debate, so I'll direct my current away from here.

[GCP]

7. He was a genius

Who died in poverty. Edison was a tinkerer, Tesla was the real thing.

[byronius]

8. He was in love with a pigeon.

It's true. I read the book. He never dated anyone, but developed a love of pigeons late in life, and confessed to a journalist that he had developed a romantic love for a white female pigeon that he cared for outside his office window.

I think it's cool. Weird, but the guy's brain was so fricking amazing -- I don't care what he fell in love with, as long as he wasn't forcing it on something, if you know what I mean.

[myrna minx]

9. Happy Birthday to a genius and humanitarian.

:toast:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Some humanitarian.

"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."

[HOLOS]

11. Brilliant Pioneer