I believe the hotel let him stay there for free in one of the less desirable rooms [without maid service?] because his fame drew people to the hotel. I think I read that Tesla became a fixture in the dining room. People would buy his meals just to talk with him? I'd buy him dinner.
Tesla could have been wealthy, but he just wasn't interested in money. He was consumed with inventing things and never made a 'direct' connection between inventions and cash or cost. Eating and having a place to sleep was probably this bothersome side effect of being alive...not worthy of any consideration beyond the bare essentials. He probably was...an out of the box genius crackpot [Contacts with Mars and all] that people who did make the financial connection supported [until the practicality to cost ratio got too far out of hand] but never paid. Just shovel in the tons and tons of coal for the power plants and he accelerated and accelerated ...till the big crash. Possibly even a savant of sorts. Very smart, no horse sense a'tall. A living 'channel' with little 'person' attached to it. Ode At 01:22 PM 6/5/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I have always wondered why the historians say Tesla "died in poverty in a >Hotel room". Think about it. Poverty would be living on an exhaust grate >below the hotel, on the street. Many people consider living in a hotel to >be the most luxurious style of all. It was not a flop-house, but a really >nice hotel. > >JOH > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rowena Evans [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 8:32 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: CS>Tesla > > >And the book "Rivals, Conflict as the Fuel of Science by Michael White, >Vintage 2002. Chapter 4: The Battle of the Currents (Nikola Tesla and Thomas >Edison 1884-1893, says: > > 'In 1943, at the age of eighty-seven, Tesla died in poverty in a hotel >room, shared with dozens of pigeons he habitually coaxed in from his window >ledge." > >Rowena >> Tesla died a pauper in a hotel room. I saw a special program night >before last on Tesla's life. >> > > >-- >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: >http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > >
