Footnote... most of Teslas inventions were successful.
well, I never said they didn't work
Also, a question out of curiosity:
Why is Tesla in the centre of so many conspiracy theories? What makes Tesla so appealing to conspiritors?
Why not
Meitner, Lorentz, Bohr, Rutherford, Heisenburg,
Hahn, Ampere, Volta, Gauss, Kirchhoff, Lenz, von
Braun,
Rudolph, Strughold, Maxwell,
Faraday....Hawking.... the list could go on... (bolded ones where I can make up some off the top of my head)
I mean, for example, Wireless electricity through magnetic induction was discovered by Faraday. The equation that tells us how much energy will be transferred is called "Faraday's equation". Yet all credit of wireless electricity goes to Tesla.
A/C circuits was initially done by Pixii, Gibbs, Gualard, Ferranti etc. Decades before Tesla. The first feasible generator was invented by William Stanley. Then rapidly developed by both Tesla
and Siemens but ironically, Siemens and Stanley is forgotten for their contributions as well, overshadowed by Tesla.
Tesla would not have known anything about deathrays or resonance if not for Lenz's, Hertz's, Lorentz's work. And the deathray and oscilator used concepts directly from their work too. but all credit goes to Tesla.
And all of the above traces back to Maxwell's, Ampere's, Gauss's, Voltaire's etc. work, where electricity would not have even been known or possible without them.
And all of which traces back to
Newton's work, which traces back to Arabic mathematics, and further
It's not that I'm trying to discredit Tesla, I'm just really curious how he's the centre of all these conspiracy theories.
The modern world was shaped and created by all the names above and hundreds more (notice I didn't even mention Einstein). Yet all the credit seems to be placed on Tesla from the conspirator's pov.
Isn't it a bit ironic?
And how useful is 100 year old technology anyway? Look at windows 98 and windows 7... thats the difference between 10 years of technology. Imagine 100.