Check this out for example....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
The guy designs a wireless Telco tower... in EIGHTTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY SOMETHING.
Like...
what??? They have barely got to grips sending with electricity down wires, and this lad is off setting up his wireless.
And then you start looking at the other stuff, the term mind boggling doesn't even apply here.
X rays, Alternators, alternating current, AND gate, charged particle beams, Arc lights,.... i dunno, amplifiers... like, its mental.
All him.
One guy, that most people have barely heard of.
What did Edison do? Light bulbs and phonographs. Emm. Cheers. Savage form there boss.