Nikola Tesla's birthday

I was really pleased to see Google acknowledging the brilliant Nikola Tesla today, a genius almost without compare. If you want to find out more about him, his life and his amazing inventions then I'd recommend Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out of Time, which may be hard to find but there should be a few secondhand copies available through Amazon. I haven't read Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else yet, but it is sitting on my shelf waiting to be picked up. If you're interested in Tesla's appearances in film and fiction then David Bowie appears as the great man in The Prestige and Matt Fraction placed him with his real life friend Mark Twain in the fun Five Fists of Science. I wrote about Tesla here: Tesla's Legacy....