Tesla was definitely one of the most brilliant, and usually the most forgotten also. what is this tesla cult thing?
Tesla is being proclaimed as by the cult worshippers as the greatest mind every. They claim many of his inventions were stolen from him and claimed by others. The radio comes first to mind.
The Tesla coil is claimed to be the greatest invention in history by those who worship Tesla. It is claimed that vested interestes are keeping the value of the coil from being passed on to mankind.
There are a number of Tesla devotees who feel that much of Tesla's work has been deliberately hidden or suppressed because the applications of his work would bring about energy independence FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL. He also was reputed to have created the first directed energy beam weapons but had trouble aiming them....some wags(get your tin foil hat on for this one) even claim that on one such testing, that it went off at the same time as the Tunguska Siberian....a real oops moment.
Tesla allowed himself only a few close friends. Among them were the writers Robert Underwood Johnson, Mark Twain, and Francis Marion Crawford. He was quite impractical in financial matters and an eccentric, driven by compulsions and a progressive germ phobia. But he had a way of intuitively sensing hidden scientific secrets and employing his inventive talent to prove his hypotheses. Tesla was a godsend to reporters who sought sensational copy but a problem to editors who were uncertain how seriously his futuristic prophecies should be regarded. Caustic criticism greeted his speculations concerning communication with other planets, his assertions that he could split the Earth like an apple, and his claim of having invented a death ray capable of destroying 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles (400 kilometres).
His papers are supposedly in a museum in Belgrade....but cultist devotees feel that the real "juicy stuff" has been deliberately hidden and suppressed!