In 2020, I gave the story of Elon Musk on this podium, the modern-day hero who wants to follow the instincts of one of the greatest inventors of all time, Nikola Tesla.
I said Elon is one of the modern heroes Africa lost today. Being its native son, he fled at the age of 8 to create golden opportunities which rule the world today.
Imagining how Elon’s courage of turning his dreams into reality makes me remember his influencer whose legacies and enormous contributions to the development of this modern world unite us here, he’s Nikola Tesla. Alas! The genius died at 86; starved, broke, alone and depressed.
Intelligence can be inherited from one person to another even a light-year apart; just like how Jabir bn Hayyan was influenced by Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, or how Galileo’s intelligence was transferred to Albert Einstein —and how Stephen Hawking was influenced by Einstein.
Moreover, today, Elon Musk wants to be influenced by Nikola Tesla. This is why Elon named his company after Tesla. Meanwhile, I use to say if acumen was not used positively it would definitely be used negatively when its owner is abandoned and desolated.
But Tesla was one of the few heroes who never used his talent negatively despite the fact that poverty ravaged him at the end of his life. Geniuses like him do not deserve such an ending, but it was his fate —and he had no choice.
Well, to understand who Nikola Tesla is, one needs to trace back history to the 19th century when his mother left Croatia for the United States. Tesla was born in 1856. His mother was an inventor who used to invent useful home materials. She influenced him to do things appropriately. She called him the “son of light” even though he was born during a lightning storm.
Tesla was one of the greatest investors of all time. His ingeniousness shaped the way we communicate today, from the light we use every day in our houses and industries to the internet we use to connect with people, do businesses and do many things.
He worked on dozens of projects, such as the AC motor, carbon button lamp, death ray, induction motor, plasma globe, plasma lamp, radio control, rotating magnetic field, teleforce, teleoperation, Tesla's oscillator etc.
Tesla's saddest epoch is how he died penniless, homeless and depressed in a hotel room in 1943 at the age of 86.
Tesla was one of the few people in this world who have a pure heart and zeal for making positive development regardless of what they would gain. What matters most to him was to help the world with his acumen. But at last, he went bankrupt, his company failed and his laboratory was burnt. Some of his projects were even stolen and plagiarized and a few were demolished.
He said, “I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own.”
History remembers Nikola Tesla and hails him for the good
legacies he left for the entire planet.
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