[Land-speed] OT: Change of Pace in Subjects...

[Chris Harris]

Or 'Ivory Tower' perhaps Neil !
Chris H.

> Chris;
>
> I think that reference might have been to the Biblical "Tower of Babel".
>
> Regards, Neil   Tucson, AZ
>
>> didn't somebody build a big high tower once?
>
> That would be Nicola Tesla, Jack, and the 'Wardenclyffe Tower built, but
> never completed,  on Long Island in the early 1900's. He'd demonstrated 
> the
> wireless transmission of an electrical current I believe.
> Clever bloke who died totally broke. Was also the developer of the
> alternating current principle.
>
> Chris Harris.......................NZed.