PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning

For some time, Nikola Tesla has been my favorite and most strongly admired of the great inventors of the 19th century. I've had this link bookmarked for months? a year? and I've read through it several times.

He was a dreamer and a visionary, an amazing man that I mention whenever there is an appropriate place for him in conversation. It seems that most people only know his name as that of that band. I hope that my frequent mentions of him will pluck the strings of curiosity about him and that more people will realize that he is, on an off day, at least as great as Edison, and his contributions to electrical engineering overshadow those of Edison.

A few links:
a shorter biography

Wikipedia entry - filled to the brim with Tesla goodness, including links to related material all over the interweb . Read up on the War of the Currents. Fascinating stuff.

Paradigma Online - a fictional journal of Inspired Science for the roleplaying game Mage: the Ascension and its proponents of alternative/weird/pseudo- science, the Sons of Ether. Tesla could have easily fit into the Sons of Ether (who would have been called the Electrodyne Engineers for most of Tesla's life). [appears to be defunct, but still has some good material to thumb through]