Tesla's biggest innovation was introducing alternating current as the standard for modern electric power, breaking Thomas Edison's monopoly on DC power. Author and monologist Mike Daisey performs a one-man show about Tesla. In this segment he describes the inventor's obsession with electricity. "He literally had visions," Daisey says. "He could create simulations of things that had never been. And they would come …
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:57PM on January 27, 2012