July 10, 1856: Nikola Tesla's Birthday

Thanks to Google's masthead for the reminder (and my old friend Cubby), here's the WIKI on the man, who probably did more to shape the world we have than anybody since James Watt. Indeed, Tesla was credited as the man who brought us the "Second Industrial Revolution".

Here's a list of what the man worked on:

• Various devices that use rotating magnetic fields (1882)
• The Induction motor, rotary transformers, and "high" frequency alternators
• The Tesla coil, his magnifying transmitter, and other means for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations (including condenser discharge transformations and the Tesla oscillators)
• Alternating current long-distance electrical transmission system (1888) and other methods and devices for power transmission Systems for wireless communication (prior art for the invention of radio) and radio frequency oscillators
• Robotics and the "AND" logic gate
• Electrotherapy Tesla currents
• Wireless transfer of electricity and the Tesla effect
• Tesla impedance phenonomena
• Tesla electro-static field
• Tesla principle
• Bifilar coil
• Telegeodynamics
• Tesla insulation
• Tesla impulses
• Tesla frequencies
• Tesla discharge
• Forms of commutators and methods of regulating third brushes
• Tesla turbines (eg., bladeless turbines) for water, steam and gas and the Tesla pumps
• Tesla igniter
• Corona discharge ozone generator
• Tesla compressor
• X-rays Tubes using the Bremsstrahlung process
• Devices for ionized gases and "Hot Saint Elmo's Fire"
• Devices for high field emission
• Devices for charged particle beams
• Phantom streaming devices
• Arc light systems
• Methods for providing extremely low level of resistance to the passage of electrical current (predecessor to superconductivity)
• Voltage multiplication circuitry
• Devices for high voltage discharges
• Devices for lightning protection
• VTOL aircraft
• Dynamic theory of gravity
• Concepts for electric vehicles
• Polyphase systems
  

It terms of creativity, this is about as far from Stevie as you can get. Tesla's three-phase rotating magnetic field is shown below. The Conservative Blue arrows are probably indicative of something.