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"This is the experimental model of the apparatus with which I hope some day to so harness the rays of the sun that heavenly body will operate every machine in our factories, propel every train and carriage in our streets, and do all the cooking in our homes, as well as furnish all the light that man may need by night as well as by day. It will, in short, replace all wood and coal as a producer of motive power and heat and electric lighting."

This would really be in big demand. Why didn't he sell any? Nevermind. Google shows several websites that for $25 you can get Tesla's plans, along with 99 other "free-energy" projects. Why don't you send in your $25 and build a few. Then get back with us.

Why didn't he sell any?

A few years later, George Westinghouse stopped funding Tesla's research when Tesla showed him that he could offer free electricity to the whole world by simply "ramming a stick in the earth in your backyard".

Man! Y'all (Junior) tell me to go to Wikipedia, so I do and I STILL get ridiculed!

Musta been the moon thing, huh?

OK, I take that one back. ;-)