Apparently he didn’t trust patents etc. He would come up with fanciful ideas, that sounded vaguely plausible, as cover for what he was actually working on.
At this point picking apart the Good, the bad and the cover is an …interesting exercise.
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Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Tesla. I feel there's so much we don't know, let alone understand, about his ideas. Have we overly sane/crazy washed him?
cynar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Look what Edison did. I don't blame him for not trusting how the business world works.
cynar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fully agree with that. Tesla got thoroughly screwed over.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i feel like the covers have ended up like star trek tech, made up nonsense but it gave people ideas that turned out to be good
ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
coo coo
huf@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
both, i think
genau@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
He was probably a bit crazy.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True, but probably more interesting than Newton, who would just keep talking about god the whole time.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
and apples