Tesla: Electrical genus.....Bad money manager
It seems that Tesla should have had a manager to help him with all of his
business projects. I read that in 1945 the United States Supreme Court
granted Tesla the title of "Inventor of Radio". Tesla had thought up all
of the process of sending wireless and receiving but never put the ideas
into devices that people could buy and companies could produce. Later a
man named Marconi arrived on the scene with his inventions, got the patents
and started a company that produced the thing everyone wanted to buy: Radio.
Tesla wanted to give electrical power to everyone free but his Bosses were
never able to show Tesla that this was the last thing they wanted to do, as
they were in the business to make money by SELLING it. I think that Tesla
wished he had been a bit more like Westinghouse and Edison during his last
days in the hotels in New York, before he died with almost no money or friends
but with lots of cardboard boxes full of his writings and plans for who knows
what?