Nikola Tesla Is 170 Today. He’d Tell You He Invented Nothing.
He said the ideas were never his. This week a lot of people wrote to tell me they knew exactly what he meant.
His last note read:
my brain is only a receiver
Today is Nikola Tesla Day. His 170th birthday. There are festivals and museum lightning shows this weekend, and out on the Long Island shore, on the field where his great tower once stood, they are dedicating a new building in his name.
We are celebrating the inventor. The three hundred patents. The alternat…
