Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla lived in 19th and 20th century, implementing among other things the wireless remote control in 19th century and apparently also just for this purposes the equvalents of "and" and "or" circuits!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_remotec.html

His originality attracted a lot of unbalanced writing though, and calling him such names is in my opinion unbalanced.

Indeed.. one of the patron saints for hackers IMHO. :)