--On 25 September 2002 06:41 -0400 "James M. Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Rachel Willmer wrote:
>> ...
>> come to think of it, didn't a German, Konrad Zuse, invent the first
>> binary computer, the Z1, in Berlin in 1936...
>
> Perhaps, but
>
> a. We're drifting WAAAY off-topic here,
aw, Jim, you're no fun...
:-)
> b. http://www.coe.unco.edu/DonnaFerguson/ETHistory/TESLA.HTM
> Nikola Tesla (despite how Hoover's FBI treated him) was the
> greatest inventor of all time, bar none. Whether or not you
> know it, his brilliant advances touch our lives every day,
> and unfortunately he died in poverty (but let's talk about
> MONEY!!!)
that would be Nikola Tesla, the Serbo-Croat? who didn't arrive in the US
until he was nearly 30, by which time he had already invented the induction
motor?
mind you, I grant you he was brilliant...
rachel
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