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Re:Nikola Tesla predicted mobile phones in 1909 by jacquesm on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @11:16AM (#1318238)
Teslas biggest 'problem' is that the kooks have declared him to be their patron saint and are going all overboard in attributing all kinds of nonsense to him.

Tesla didn't help matters with the way he conducted (pun definitely not intended) himself and some of the experiments he did.

But I'll bet there isn't a scientist that wouldn't give up a significant amount of money to get their hands on that classified notebook just in case there is some hidden gem in there.

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_mispapers.html

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Re:Nikola Tesla predicted mobile phones in 1909 by ErrantX on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @11:21AM (#1318256)
Well, yeh true. But at the time the main reason was he tore up the Westinghouse contract and died in relative obscurity/depression. Whereas Edison was a much more public figure.

In the later years after both their deaths many people (questioned) believed Edison had pioneered AC current (and as a result was responsible for the consumer electricity market) - none had really heard of Westinghouse/Tesla.

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