Nikola Tesla

"Called a madman by someone, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone,
Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was,
without doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming,
devices that often were virtually without theoretical precedent. It was Tesla who
introduced us to the fundamentals of robotry, computers, and missile science and
helped pave the way for such space-age technologies as satellites, microwaves,
beam weapons, and nuclear fusion. Yet, Tesla still remains one of the least
recognized scientific pioneers in history. Certainly he was one of the strangest of
scientists-almost supernaturally gifted, erratic, flamboyant, and neurotic nearly to
the point of madness. He was fond of creating neighborhood-threatening electrical
storms in his apartment laboratory and once nearly knocked down a tall building by
attaching a mysterious "black box" to its side. .) And because he kept so few notes,
to this day we can only guess at the details of many of the fantastic scientific
projects that occupied his fevered intellect."