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	Sad Tale of Tesla

nvizzini

12-8-2005 8:35 AM

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nikola tesla, history, scientist, tesla coil, biography, piegons, hotel new yorker

nvizzini says:

I never knew this... Very sad...

The text is from an article by Mike Daisey, http://www.mikedaisey.com

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12-8-2005 1:07 PM

rachelw

Thats so sad...as they say the line between genius and insanity is very thin...

12-8-2005 2:02 PM

jfriedland

Remember the band Tesla? Probably 1990-ish? "Signs, signs everywhere the signs..."

12-8-2005 2:11 PM

adamc

i keep hearing about the band, but i've never heard any songs. were they any good?

just finished Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney. fascinating read if anyone wants to dig deeper into his genius (and madness).

if given the proper financing we could have built a version of the web before we had TV.

12-8-2005 2:19 PM

jfriedland

The short version is: no, the band wasn't good. You didn't miss much. (My apologies to any die-hard Tesla fans).

12-8-2005 2:26 PM

adamc

they're still going around...
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5110D34A-EF25-42B0-A264-7C5EA63C7FF5/

12-8-2005 2:27 PM

nvizzini

wonder what Tesla would think of Tesla

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