Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, and a personal and business rival of Thomas Edison for decades, died penniless and alone in a hotel in New York. Despite his many inventions and great fame, he had few friends and virtually nothing to show for his work by this, his 87th year of life.
Tesla has been more fondly remembered in fiction than in history, where he is often the archetypal Mad Scientist – and hero or villain with about equal frequency.
By Vasenka – Belgrade, Serbia ~ Tesla Museum ~ Tesla’s Ashes.
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As mentioned in:
Edison’s Medicine — Tesla
Tesla’s Hotel Room — The Handsome Family