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  • by Nikola Tesla.

  • I have invited you here to pull back the curtain.

  • Shall we begin?

  • Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor who lived in New York around the turn of the 20th century.

  • People will only know Tesler because of the cars and Elon Musk.

  • But the only reason Elon Musk, she called it because he was a fan of Nikola Tesla.

  • Nicolas Tessler dreams up the 20th century before it happens before you have X rays.

  • Tesla had shadow graphs before you have drones.

  • Tesla has autumn Atom's before Marconi gets the Piton for radio.

  • They have to take it from Tesla because he invents it first.

  • He also had a laboratory warden, Cliff that he was trying to build, which he wanted to use to unite the globe with signals over the world wireless system.

  • That's why if I, he just will have the idea for WiFi.

  • History tells us that Tesla was was a genius but died penniless, but only because he wasn't a businessman.

  • It's a simple is that I had a big rivalry, which Thomas Edison, which became very bitter Edison Champions arrival form of electric current to Mr Tesla's A C direct current Of course he would champion something so slow and inefficient.

  • That man is a liar and the thief.

  • Tesla had worked for Edison when he came to America first, and Edison had exploited some of Tesla's ideas.

  • The general feeling was that Edison was the better businessman.

  • On Tesler was theme or vision re inventor.

  • Half of your inventions were thought up by other people.

  • Anyone could have ideas.

  • I make them happen.

  • You're too blind to see that my factory is the best idea either one of us ever had.

  • You're not a man of vision.

  • You're a man, parts for people to learn, how brilliant Tesler was and what he wanted to do with radio waves and what he wanted to do with electricity and the whole bit.

  • It's extraordinary, really.

  • I mean, how did you learn that?

  • How'd you know that stuff?

  • He was an extraordinary character who?

  • Waas Not really given the respect he deserved in the time that he was alive on history has proven him to be very, very insightful and forward looking and right in a lot of what he was trying to create.

  • The president is theirs.

by Nikola Tesla.

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