It rarely pays to be ahead of your time, especially when your pet project is
the development of a free source of energy for everyone. It's tough to monetize
that kind of thing — and tougher to break it to your investors that they are
now philanthropists.
Although several of Tesla's contemporaries parlayed their patents into great
fortunes and built empires that stand today, Nikola Tesla’s obsession was the
work itself, so he died broke and in debt. If only he had the business savvy of
his former boss (that guy Edison) or the financial skills of the
inventor/industrialist who licensed his work (a different guy named
Westinghouse). Tesla is a hero to scientists, outsiders, artists, eccentrics,
and those of us who somehow always find ourselves with nothing to do on
Saturday night.
Send someone this dazzling die-cut card depicting the Wizard of Shoreham, New
York* and you, too, will be ahead of your time (though not broke).
Don't have any famous last words? We give you a sticker sheet filled with
quotes from Tesla, funny sayings, and traditional messages like "Happy
Anniversary" (of the invention of your earthquake machine) and "Sorry" (that
all your crockery is broken on account of your earthquake machine).
*Give it time. This nickname will catch on.
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