Nikola Tesla and His Complaints

Our contemporary the American Electrician sums up the points at issue between Mr. Nikola Tesla and another American journal in the following concise terms: “The truth plainly stated is, that for several years Mr. Tesla has only escaped similar criticism in professional and scientific journals on account of the high esteem in which he is held personally, and through recollection of the magnificent boon he bestowed on the world by the invention early in his career of the polyphased system. The manner in which he has permitted himself to be exploited by the sensational newspaper Press has been a source of pain to his friends, and has largely alienated from him the sympathy of the electrical profession. Moreover, his periodical promise of being on the point of accomplishing some wonder that would revolutionise electrical science has had an untoward effect on the electrical industry, for among laymen it has tended to produce the belief that at any moment one of Tesla’s great discoveries may materialise and destroy all present investments.”