Nikola Tesla: I don’t care that they stole my idea but…

A short story of Nikola Tesla

His father was a priest, his mother, an inventor.

He was born during a lightning storm. he had a photographic memory. He was smart enough to memorize books, images, and even 3D structures. As a teenager, he contracted cholera. For over 9 months, he was bedridden for 9 months and had almost died. In college, he became fascinated with electricity. He moved to the US in 1884 to work for the famous inventor Thomas Edison.
Edison said his ideas were “splendid”, but “utterly impractical”. The company once offered him $12 million to improve his DC motor, and he did. But Edison failed to pay him, saying, “you don’t understand American humor.”
Instead, he offered him a raise of $10 a week. He quit working for him after this incident.
Edison and Tesla maintained their rivalry for years. It was called “the War of the Currents”
He eventually won and helped bring electricity to America. years later, he demonstrated radio transmission but a fire destroyed his lab as he prepared the first real radio signal. Marconi then took his ideas and his technology to win the Nobel Price. Tesla was inflamed, especially when he found out, Marconi had received all his financial support from his old rival Edison.
The court invalidated Marconi’s radio patents because they were based on Tesla’s work. Justice finally prevails, true, but unfortunately it happened two years after his death. He once didn’t even sleep and worked for continuous 84 hours. He spoke eight languages. and filled more than 300 patents. Some of his work is still classified by the U.S. Government.
Truthfully he never really cared about the money. Years after he died a statue of him was erected in Silicon Valley. The statue is equipped with free wi-fi connection.