>e.g. Tesla
And how much more would we have gotten from Tesla if he hadn't been in financial ruins? He's probably proof positive that without the financial incentive/backing, the world loses out on countless inventions.
And how much more would we have gotten from Tesla if he hadn't been in financial ruins? He's probably proof positive that without the financial incentive/backing, the world loses out on countless inventions.
Even at the time, Tesla's greatest contributions were being simultaneously discovered by contemporaries like Galileo Ferraris. Discovery marches on, and is more a product of the existing body of scientific knowledge than of any one man.
There have been too many other great minds in physics and electrical engineering for it to be remotely plausible that we've missed out on "countless inventions" that would be available to us today, if only Tesla had more money for his experiments.