Tesla was the geek that Westinghouse (the business person) tried to make rich, but Tesla never really got the 'money' thing. Science and ideas were everything to NT. Tesla didn't like Edison, but Edison and Westinghouse were more 'peer enemies' (especially in business) than Tesla v. Edison.
Edison's empire was the basis of todays GE. Westinghouse Electric Corp (the successor to Westinghouse Air Brake Company) is still around, just not the powerhouse they used to be. Currently they build and manage about half of the nuclear reactors in current operation (source: Wikipedia ... so it is fact/not fact at your discretion) Today if you want to purchase Westinghouse stock, you need to buy Toshiba. They acquired it in 2006. GE is still GE on the Big Board. Westinghouse Licensing is owned by CBS / Viacom. And Tesla is still one of my geek heroes. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
