• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    4 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?

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      4 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.