Today is the birthday of Nikola Tesla (according to google.com). He is best known for his invention of the radio which apparently was credited to the wrong person (Guglielmo Marconi). It wasn’t until after Tesla’s death that the US Supreme Court decided that the patent of the radio belonged to Tesla not Marconi. Too bad he wasn’t alive to see the verdit (see article for more details about Tesla). That’s pretty awesome considering I didn’t know what the radio was until well into my middle school years. I didn’t 100% understand the concept until I got to high school. Needless to say I lead a sort of sheltered life. Sure my parents had radios in their cars, but they never listened to it. They recently came from Korea and wouldn’t have understood what was being said on the radio. Even now they don’t listen to anything but the Korean station 1310AM. So I didn’t know what the radio was or what it did. I didn’t understand what radio stations did. It was HOT 99.5 that changed all that for me. I remember going to school and people talking about the hot, new radio station. Ah. Those were the days.
