Nikola Tesla was a genius, but hardly any average people know of him, they think of people like Edison and Marconi and such, why is this ?
2006-11-17 06:21:06 · 10 answers · asked by birdman 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Nikola Tesla was ahead of his time and has to be one of the best pure scientific minds of all time. A big reason why he doesn't get more shine is because of his eccentricities. He was asexual, wouldn't clean himself, and didn't really care for academia. He viewed science as art, rather than as a discipline or as something to be studied. He was also cheated out of credit for many of his discoveries by other scientists. Thomas Edison was also among those who screwed Tesla out due credit and money. Tesla was a rival of Edison's and likely was a better scientist. Edison had more patents, but Tesla had him in terms of scientific acumen. History is only now giving Tesla is due.
2006-11-17 06:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by phoenixmg2000 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because he was also a little crazy, and not that interested in practical devices. Most of what he did actually had little practical benefit. He spent a lot of time on things like trying to beam large amounts of power through the air without wires.
He was really smart and he had some fine ideas. But Edison and Marconi, less smart and with fewer big ideas, did the hard, grind it out work to make practical things that revolutionized the world. For example, Edison tried many many things that didn't work before he invented a practical way to make a light bulb. It was persistence that got him success, not genius. And we're all better off for it.
2006-11-17 06:34:52 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Tesla was a genius, but he was also antisocial and could apparently be kind of a jerk. Both Edison & Marconi were far better at selling themselves. As were Henry Ford and George Westinghouse, who both also share a little of the blame for Tesla's relative obscurity...
2006-11-17 06:38:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unknown? Hardly. A Google search for "Nikola Tesla" yields 1,420,000 results, only 21% less than "Thomas Edison". He was a character in the recent film "The Prestige". He was a character in the graphic novel "The Five Fists of Science" by Matt Fraction. He has been the subject of several documentaries such as "The Master of Lightning", "The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla" and "Nikola Tesla-The Genius Who Lit the World." The rock band Tesla was named after him. UNESCO proclaimed 2006 as the "Year of Nikola Tesla" celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. In 1997, Life Magazine named him one of the "100 Greatest Men in History". A Nikola Tesla Monument within Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls (Canadian side) was unveiled on July 9, 2006
2016-03-28 23:43:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Edison was a fast and smooth talker and Niko needed to stick up for himself and beat Tommy down for stealing his ****!
2006-11-17 16:54:41 · answer #5 · answered by Silly me 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because he partnered up with Westinghouse.and because Westinghouse .was a rich prick he got the glory for a/c current
2006-11-17 06:34:10 · answer #6 · answered by ata31254 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he had a bad press agent and he was russian( not that being russian was a bad thing)have you heard of a teslar coil???
2006-11-17 06:26:28 · answer #7 · answered by gabegm1 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because people dont care at all what so ever
2006-11-17 06:24:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because he was wrong about almost everything.
2015-01-22 19:45:01 · answer #9 · answered by Brigalow Bloke 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He doesn't use myspace.
2006-11-17 06:51:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋