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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 57 points 2 months 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?

[-] genau@europe.pub 28 points 2 months ago
[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

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

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

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 27 points 2 months ago

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

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Fully agree with that. Tesla got thoroughly screwed over.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month 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

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