never heard of him, and his life and work are shrouded in controversy?
2006-07-13 06:42:04 · 12 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Rising 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
hey... tesla was a romanian, not a soviet... and romania became soviet by force, when the communists won the elections by fraude.... so, anyway, as i was saying, tesla is so unkown because:
1. he came from a little country who was under soviet abusive occupation for 50 yrs (there are many brilliant romaninans but so few are known... )
2. his work was in a field that not many people have heard of and even fewer understand it
3. his research was secret.. we don't know even in these days (or at least the public opinnion doesn't know) what are the projects he was working at
4. which is more interesting: scientific stuff or tv ?
2006-07-13 07:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by scoobie doo scks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nikola Tesla replaced right into a real genius, yet people made large strides in different places of life that we use time-honored without even determining it. Nikola Tesla replaced into popularized, yet not a lot of his stuff is even used, like Da Vinci.
2016-11-02 00:02:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edison was a greater showman and overshadowed Tesla. Tesla was probably more the genius inventor, but Edison had a stable of inventors working round the clock to make "his" inventions.
The whole Edison/Tesla thing reminds me a lot of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates contemporarily.
2006-07-13 06:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by uniquename23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was about money. Edison knew people with money. Tesla was an outstanding researcher of his time. There are a few of us who are big fans. I have an old Popular Science magazine from around 1917 with featured articles about Tesla.
2006-07-14 16:30:59 · answer #4 · answered by magr8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Politics
2006-07-13 07:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His work wasn't anything the average person could relate to their lives. Take Newton, for example. He's popular becuase of gravity, which is all around us, and highly talked about. But how many people know about his other discoveries? Or his books? Or his research? Or his nemesis Hooke? Einstein's popular for his theory of Relativity (because it's so important). People know about E=mc^2 without knowing what it even means. He may be the most popular scientist of the century, but not many people can actually name the things that he did.
2006-07-13 06:51:55 · answer #6 · answered by M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he was Soviet. He was around during the Cold War, and the US simply did not want to admit that one of the brainest people in the world was Soviet. The rest is history.
2006-07-13 06:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by dennis_d_wurm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a lot of his projects like free electricity, etc., couldn't make money for the likes of JP Morgan and other such (IMO) vampires, and they pulled his funding.
2006-07-13 06:47:08 · answer #8 · answered by medicine wheel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we rather believe in Edison who was American. How can a foreigner be better or smarter? Our arrogance does not allow us to aknowledge foreign intelligence.
2006-07-13 06:53:10 · answer #9 · answered by pelister56 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he's a physicist and tesla coils aren't that well known. people know the curies because of x-rays and radioactivity.
2006-07-13 06:45:18 · answer #10 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋