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>e.g. Tesla And how much more would we have gotten from Tesla if he hadn't been in financial ruins? He's probably proof positive that without the financial in

• Niten 11y ago
  Nikola Tesla was a great engineer and innovator—and showman—who's been mythologized beyond all reason. Even at the time, Tesla's greatest contributions were being simultaneously discovered by contemporaries like Galileo Ferraris. Discovery marches on, and is more a product of the existing body of scientific knowledge than of any one man. There have been too many other great minds in physics and electrical engineering for it to be remotely plausible that we've missed out on "countless inventions" that would be available to us today, if only Tesla had more money for his experiments.
  • tw04 11y ago
    Which is why we're just now starting to get wireless power 70 years after his death...