>>Given some of his other inventions, I can't help but wonder if he
>>invented the infamous Thunderbolt ammunition on a slow weekend in the
>>1870s.
>
>I dunno about that. I suppose it's possible, but Thunderbolts are just
>an evolution of a well-understood technology, just making it smaller.
>Tesla's designs, aside from being a good bit quirkier, seem to utilize
>physics that aren't well understood by the scientists of the day. That
>IS his hallmark, after all.
>

I'd guess that he didn't - since Thunderbolt ammo, if I remember correctly, is built around a tiny core of antimatter, it wouldn't have been possible for him to invent it in the 1870s, when particle physics were in their infancy, or possibly still gestating.

Peter Eng
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