@HannibalAteMeOut there is a Tesla museum not that far from where I work, I believe it's called Wardenclyffe. It was where he lived and did his experiements. At one time in my life, I literally lived around the block from there.

@SteelHands do u think tesla came in the wrong time?

@saher090 Actually not at all. The natural arrival of super geniuses in this world do not arrive without perfect alignment by our one omnipotent Creator. His having been here was net positive. I don't need to know why.

@SteelHands there's some evidence that the hand of the almighty was actually involved. You see during the era he lived there were at least one or two others that were up there at the genius level so profoundly that it only makes sense if you see the timing as a kind of "tag team" arrival. More than the sum of parts. Citing examples like Heviside, Farnsworth, Deforest and in truth, probably a thousand unsung geniuses in the 20th century. That those who arrived after the 1930s merely stood on the shoulders of giants is not known by 98% of even today's most science drenched and pigmented minds.

@BizSuitStacy ok but some crazy stuffs were attributed to him the few last years like time travel, and earthquake generation!!

@Steve42 Possibly because he didn't actually do the stuff they now claim he did?

@Steve42 [quote]They still can't duplicate a lot of stuff he did a 100 years ago[/quote]

Probably because much of the stuff people give him credit for never worked to begin with...

@Magnolia21 Around 1900 he got paid a couple of million in today's money by Westinghouse, not too bad a marketing move.

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And to clarify he was the "secret" genius for years but he's basically been deified at this point and c'mon enough now.

@ChipmunkErnie hitlers boy is what he was

@Angelwarfare In today's money Tesla sold his patents to Westinghouse for millions in cash and stock. ;)

@Dino11 Westinghouse bought Tesla's patents for a multiphase (?) electric engine, etc., for a couple of millions in today's money and was actually the one who went head-to-head with Edison.

@MethDozer Right, my point. Everyone knows he's the genius that got ignored while Edison who was a partial fraud got credit and it's basically just new mythmaking. Dude was impressive and cool but it's not like the name is unknown at this point.

@CountScrofula exactly. Like he was the only unsung genius in history.


He's just sorta become the name drop for people to virtue signal how much they just "loooove science".