Still no bells ringing ? Not surprisingly (unless you studied electricity in college). And yet this man put down the foundations for the management of electricity as it (still) is today. He beat Edison (yes, the one from the bulb) in that. He is also the inventor of the radio (Marconi build on his ideas) and had several other inventions still in use today. Google rightly puts up a special image for him.
There are however some people (myself amongst them) who do know Tesla and did not learn about him in college. And no, it is not because we have a Tesla ball at home ...
No, the reason we know Tesla is ... we learned about him in a computer-game. Yes, that is right, in the Red Alert game there is a weapon called after him (not surprisingly, he invented several himself ... and blew up his own laboratory several times).Computer-games as a medium to teach science. Well, well, well, who would have guessed it. In Ether Saga Online - a game I am playing at the moment - there are several quests that require you to know things. The myth of Romulus and Remus ? The Wright brothers ? Ancient civilizations ? You better know about them, because they get you some nice benefits in the game. Of course the game has its share of action as well, but I very much like the idea ...
