Whether or not every historical detail in the story is perfectly accurate, the pattern itself feels familiar. Tesla ended up as the name of a car company, and h

Whether or not every historical detail in the story is perfectly accurate, the pattern itself feels familiar. Tesla ended up as the name of a car company, and hardly anyone pauses to think about the scientist anymore. Some contributions succeed so completely that they dissolve into the everyday and fall off the list of things we consciously praise. That disappearance is, in its own way, evidence that the work was gold.