Modern

Nikola Tesla

1856–1943

Inventor of the alternating current

The future-is-mine line circulates more cleanly than the sources do, and the canon marks that. What is solid is the life: a man who sold the patents that lit cities and died in a hotel room, still designing.

In the canon

  1. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.A remark on his contemporaries, often dated to his later interviews

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