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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
not to be cliche, but Martin Luther King Jr.
As far as an inventor-type person, by far Nikola Tesla. He's the most underrated inventor in history as far as I'm concerned, and 1000x more important than Edison when it comes to electricity. If people had listened to him more we would have advanced much faster in electrical technology and safety.
As for the Lincoln debate, he was a great man and president, yes. I do agree with this. He learned over time to control his temper in a manner very few do. However, he was not the great president the myth makes him out to be. One must keep in mind that due to the circumstances of the civil war he pretty much had carte blanche to do whatever he wanted with the government.
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Why do many people admire wartime civilian and military leaders, specifically
generals and politicians, instead of those who impacted our country
through their inventive genius or their humanitarian insight and example?
<a href="http://www.teslascience.org/">Tesla Wardenclyffe Project</a>
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Do we (you) know more details about Tesla's ideas about and use of electrical currents for healing the human body? Or about helping the body the way he thought he was doing with the treatments he gave himself?
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by Margaret Cheney (December 19 postings).....click on this link:
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/tesla/dis/responses.html">http://www.pbs.org/tesla/dis/responses.html</a>
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/tesla/dis/cheney.html">http://www.pbs.org/tesla/dis/cheney.html</a>
Tesla's ideas on medical treatment with electricity are in widespread use today, as in diathermy or deep-heat for injuries, arthritis, etc.; the application of x-ray, microwave and radiowave to destroy cancer cells, and for healing bones and tissues. The magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) is measured in Tesla Units. Tesla's idea of bathing in "cold fire" or a low-power therapeutic device, is believed to have a psychosomatic effect beyond the mechanical. (For more on this: Tesla, Man Out of Time, Cheney; Tesla, Master of Lightning, Cheney and Uth.)
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More reading on Tesla at PBS website.
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_arts.html">http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_arts.html</a>
In his battle against Tesla, Edison fought to preserve his monopoly on the
NY City direct current (DC) power generating and distribution newtork that
his company was building and profiting from. Edison had briefly employed Tesla and had reneged on paying Tesla a promised $50,000 bonus. DC
was an inferior technology because it required bulky copper wires and
heavy transformers to distribute electricity even short distances from power
plants, and offered a much greater risk of electrocution to people in DC electrified homes or businesses. Edison created a smear and disinformation campaign against Tesla and his superior alternating current (AC) power
system design, which included demonstrations where stray animals were
executed by Edison employees using AC current to falsely persuade the
public that AC current was more dangerous. Tesla worked closely with the
Westinghouse company to build powered generators and motors that
displaced and eliminated Edison's DC powered products. Edison intended for
his smear term "westinghoused" to be interchangeable with the word
"electrocuted". <a href="http://physics.about.com/cs/physicists/a/tesla1_4.htm">http://physics.about.com/cs/physicists/a/tesla1_4.htm</a>