Tesla

[kelber at mindspring.com]

And, most importantly, he's being portrayed by David Bowie in the upcoming flick The Prestige.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 23, 2006 9:58 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Tesla
>
>http://www.teslasociety.com/victoria.htm
>
>Nikola Tesla designed the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara
>Falls, New York which started producing electrical power in 1895.
>This was the beginning of the electrification of the United States and
>the rest of the world.  Today, Tesla's AC electricity is lighting and
>powering the globe.  Nikola Tesla is the genius who lit the world.
>
>Now, the inventor of alternating current has a permanent tribute
>overlooking the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, Canadian side.
>
>As a boy, Tesla saw a picture of Niagara Falls and told his uncle in
>Lika, Croatia, that he wanted to put a wheel under the falls to
>harness the power of the moving water.
>
>This great monument of Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls, Canadian side,
>is one of greatest recognition of Nikola Tesla's work.  Tesla designed
>the first hydro-electric power plant at Niagara Falls and with George
>Westinghouse started the electrification of the world.  This monument
>is built in one of the most beautiful and most important place in the
>world.
>
>-- 
>David Morris