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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?

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$$$ Isn't everything
Mostly it is a means 2 control what you can do & think about
























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You know what, though.."Tesla stuck to his guns"..he was well aware of commercial interests in inventions by inventors but as a commenter said, Tesla was a true altruist. There are not enough of these people.

Would you classify that as a launch problem or a design problem?-Real Genius

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You're right, but maybe if he had paid attention to his finances, he could have later financed himself his project. He could have been a millionaire (in those time, that means probably billionaire in today's money). Instead he was dependent on investors.

When he wanted to find a way for wireless transmission of electrical energy, he couldn't find an investor. So he cheated an inventor by saying that he is creating radio link from America to Europe. According to him, he was very close to achieving wireless transmission of electricity, but the investor was disappointed with lack of progress on radio. He checked and when he saw that what Tesla was doing had nothing to do with radio he withdrew the funding. And during that time, Marconni was making millions on Tesla's inventions. He tried to sue him later, but without friends, money and backers, he couldn't have possibly fought a legal battle against a multi-million dollar corporation...

With just a little bit of managerial skills, he could have been an extremely rich man. And given his altruistic nature, I don't doubt that all that vast fortune would have been used for the benefit of mankind...

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True that in 1945 Tesla's patents on Radio were confirmed by the US Supreme Court. Trouble is that Tesla died in 1943, so it didn't do him any good.

Tesla was a scientist and others like Marconi, and Edison were more interested in profiting from Tesla's ideas.

I would love to see a major Hollywood movie about the "War of the Currents"


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Oh sure, every invention at the turn of the century and beyond was stolen from Tesla .

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I think that not only was Tesla a brilliant man, but a very good soul. I don't think he believed people could be so selfish, corrupt and immoral. He believed that people would be as excited as he was about the good that his inventions could do and he trusted them to act accordingly. If we are going to get into finger-pointing, I think it should be done to those who acted in a corrupt manner, not to the person whose goal was to make people's lives better.

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