Today is the 161st birthday of Nikola Tesla, the genius who gave us Alternating Current and who was prevented from giving the world free electricity! It is said that he filed over 700 patents. After he died, he was finally given his due and was credited as the inventor of radio, not Marconi, as was widely believed.
Nikola is immortalized in the name of a band named after him. The band Tesla even put a spotlight on the Tesla-Marconi issue by naming one of their albums "The Great Radio Controversy". They also talked about the Thomas Edison-Tesla rivalry in their song "Edison's Medicine". David Bowie played Tesla in a 2006 movie and the band They Might Be Giants did a whole song about Tesla that was featured in their album "Nanobots".
It is said that when Albert Einstein was asked how it felt to be the smartest man in the world, he replied: "I wouldn't know. Ask Nikola Tesla."
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla and thank you!