You may know of two electric luminaries (total pun!) of the 19th century, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. With over 1,600 patents between them, they were certainly prolific. As Nobel nominees, they were certainly brilliant. With our daily use of devices invented by both of them, they are certainly enduring. As inventors of both an earthquake machine and a spirit phone, they were certainly mad. As co-writers of
Hells Bells, they are certainly gods of rock.
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