" Even more impressive, however, is what Vujovic calls the start of the industrial revolution: Tesla's

AC induction motor [which] is widely used throughout the world in industry and household appliances…Electricity today is generated, transmitted and converted to mechanical power by means of his inventions. Tesla's greatest achievement is his polyphase alternating current system, which is today lighting the entire globe.

Tesla was certainly aware of the significance of his designs -- but he was not the only scientist developing new technology. He was constantly battling to obtain patents; getting them, losing them, and gaining them back again (such was the case with patent number 645576, "A System of Transmission of Electrical Energy," which was returned to Tesla post-mortum in 1943, having been granted in 1900 only to be taken from him and given to Guglielmo Marconi, and then returned -- acknowledging Tesla as one of the forefathers of modern...
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