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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Famously secretive inventor Nikola Tesla devised a binary code based on Pig Latin, with which he encrypted some of his most important work.


See also:
- Tesla: Master of Lightning

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4 Comments

  • Incorrect.

    The mysterious thing about Tesla's work is that he never wrote anything down. He kept it all in his head.

    Read his biography, you'll see.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 07, 2008 12:46 AM  

  • He refused to take notes.

    By Blogger Xetheare, at November 18, 2008 5:43 AM  

  • How could he devise a binary code "based on Pig Latin"?
    It's a binary code; it's fucking zero and one.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at September 02, 2009 9:12 PM  

  • obviously you don't know about binary code considering the fact that the computer you used to write your comment uses binary code.....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at January 25, 2010 9:57 PM  

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