April 2018 Power and Water Leaders Issue 012

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Unfortunate Death

A foreigner and immigrant who arrived in America with only a few cents in his pocket and a deep well filled with dreams, Tesla struggled hard to realize his life quest and mission. Being the proud and sometimes arrogant man that he once was, he shared no care for superficial wealth and worked day and night in pursuit of the great scientific find; one enormous discovery after the other. “Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life,” his words in “A Visit to Nikola Tesla” by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927). His life nothing short of spectacular would have been more incredible if not of his commercial vulnerability and impracticality. Tesla peeks out the door of the Colorado Springs Laboratory. Early summer, 1899.

While he neglected the fact that he needed to earn profit and stability from his inventions, a lot of people made a fortune out of them. In 1904, the US Patent Office even reversed its previous


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