Today is inventor extraordinaire Nikola Tesla’s 154th birthday. To celebrate, someone made this gushing video overview of Tesla’s life, including a lengthy digression on how Thomas Edison was ...

Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla’s water valve, study finds ... given that his biggest claim to fame is inventing both the AC motor and an AC/DC converter.

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) Was a Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor who once worked for Thomas Edison from Ohio. Rock group AC/DC were in Cleveland this week.

Steven Matza, left, shows Mark Forman a replica of one of Nikola Tesla's electrical inventions Thursday during the groundbreaking for a $20 million project at Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.

The tongue-in-cheek piece that plays on the classic AC/DC battle (and more) was posted by Epic Rap Battles of History, ... portraying Nikola Tesla (though voiced by Nice Peter).

Tesla claimed that Edison promised him $50,000 if he succeeded, perhaps thinking it an impossible undertaking. But the potential of so much money appealed mightily to the impoverished immigrant.