I loved that pigeon

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

Edwin Armstrong

Nikola Tesla – A Serbian-American inventor and researcher who built the first alternating current induction motor in 1883.

He discovered the rotating magnetic field, which is the basis of most alternating-current machinery, and applied it to dynamos, transformers, and motors. Alternating current could be transmitted over much greater distances than direct current, but he was opposed by Thomas Edison who battled with Tesla for years over the benefits of AC versus DC power. 

George Westinghouse bought patents from Tesla the system after he built the power station at Niagara Falls to provide electricity power the city of Buffalo, NY

An amazing, although irreverent, possibly NSFW, exploration of Tesla by The Oatmeal.  Calling all geeks.

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

Nikola Tesla

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I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me.

I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

Nikola Tesla