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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look what Edison did. I don't blame him for not trusting how the business world works.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Fully agree with that. Tesla got thoroughly screwed over.

[–] genau@europe.pub 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True, but probably more interesting than Newton, who would just keep talking about god the whole time.