Happy 157th, Nikola

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One July 10th, 1856, Nikola Tesla was born. More than a century and a half later, his name is so easily associated with electric current that they even named the coolest electric car brand in the world after him.

At Niagara Falls, where the world's first hydro-electic generating plant lit up the 1901 Pan American Exposition 20 miles away in Buffalo, there is a statue of Nikola Tesla.

Not of Thomas Edison, but of Tesla, who invented the alternating current that runs the world today and that self-promoter Edison claimed was impossible.