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THE TUSSLE OVER TESLAArthur Shippee and Howard Berlin forwarded this BBC News article about the kerfuffle over planned coins honoring inventor Nikola Tesla. Thanks. -Editor
Serbia's central bank has threatened to take action with the EU if its neighbour Croatia puts the late great inventor on its coins. Croatia wants his face on its euros when it joins the currency in 2023. But Serbia claims him for its own because he saw himself as a Serb though born in what is now Croatia. The two countries are old rivals with a tragic history. Croatia's national bank said it would put the inventor on its future 50, 20 and 10-cent coins, after consulting the public. It will put its plan to the EU in October. Serbia's central bank hit back by saying that to put Tesla on Croatian coins would mean "usurping" Serbian heritage. But Croatia is not backing down. Deputy Prime Minister Boris Milosevic - who like Tesla is an ethnic Serb - said he was "proud and happy" with the plan. He was behind major modern inventions including the remote control and fluorescent lighting. Can't we all just get along? Tesla lived most of his life in the U.S., and to my mind his greatest achievement was his work with George Westinghouse perfecting the system of generating and transferring alternating current which drives the world's power grids (not to mention his designs for the electric motor). These two innovations together created the modern world. Let's honor him everywhere! -Editor
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