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Ex RF engineer here. No he didn’t. He was a con man.

• Terry_Roll 4y ago
  I thought he had actually built that tower, tv documentaries portray him as a genius who invented stuff but wasn't commercially successful.
  • uuyi 4y ago
    It was built but that’s not the real story. Ignore the TV documentaries. The real story was the tower was built for information not power delivery. But Marconi got there first and made it irrelevant. Tesla decided to repurpose the thinking around some fanciful bullshit for power delivery to pay off all the money he’d borrowed to build it. This cycled into non delivery, because quite frankly it didn’t work, and he ended up bankrupt, living in a hotel for free after giving the hotel owner a “death ray” for security. This turned out to be some primitive measurement device. Tesla did a lot of good work on AC power delivery however. But that was it. I’d rather remember him for this than the legendary bullshit.