The Story of Nikola Tesla
Scammed by Thomas Edison, abandoned by JP Morgan
6 min readOct 9, 2020
Nikola Tesla was the greatest inventor of his era. He died penniless and alone, swindled by both Thomas Edison and JP Morgan.
Tesla was born in 1856 in a mountainous region of Croatia. His father was a Serbian-Orthodox priest, learned. But Nikola got his gifts from his mother. Though she’d never attended school…