Re: 7.1Hz, how the heck did Tesla succeed?

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"Tesla failed to make it work, but that was because wall street turned
against him before it was up and running. "

	"Wall street" didn't really turn against him until he proved he
couldn't handle the money involved and kept raising the ante until it
became obvious that he wasn't getting anywhere and wasn't going to.
Read the account in Seifer (Siefer?) for example.  That author was
generally sympathetic to the man but pointed out the situation he got
himself on this occasion.  It's hard to see how anyone with enough
brains to have raised the necessary money in the first place could have
been so foolish as to keep dumping good money after bad.

"Or the failures could as easily be because it just doesn't work. The
fact that his funding was cut off and system dismantled before he got it
fully up and running in no way validates the underlying assumptions. All
the rest is an act of faith, which by its very nature must lie outside
the realm of rational discourse. "

	Amen to that!

Ed