in fact there were many nobel prize award in his era the ideas were actually spring off or developed from his.
one classic example Marconi's, i do not have any idea why Marconi have the face to receive that nobel prize. he basically steal it from telsa with very little modification/improvement. any train mind will know its developed from telsa's. the idea similarities was too great if you were to examine the patent.
It all boiled down to how to make use of ppl and become famous. I have this book called 48 laws of power that's on my iphone and it spoke about the various figures throughout history and it mentioned tesla and edison. In terms of sheer genius tesla was way above edison but who had more fame and power and more recognized it's obviously edison. During their time when they were still alive i believe tesla was living in poverty or pretty poorly while edison was rich. Even today edison gets more recognition although ppl do praise telsa for his genius but i still think edison is much more famous.
tesla was not really poor all the way, but he was bad in managing his cash.
if tesla were to be alive today, he would have solved problems associated with long distance wireless energy, zero point energy, endless power supply, levitation of heavy craft, surface effect vehicles, faster than light travel thru' space, and the mystery of ufo's.
wasn't it tesla that managed to create energy from nothing or found some inexpensive way to make electricity? Obviously the energy companies would not hear of this. Even engines that run on petrol have been created but somehow the big oil companies found ways to prevent it from becoming famous. Get ready to be a slave to society.
nope, that is an urban legend. he did invented the first hydro power station. towards the later stage of his life, he is heading towards the wrong direction - aiming in transmitting power wireless without the need of wire just like radio signal. this is proven by today understanding to be a very inefficient mean and thus till today no one bothers to go into this direction. if he is born in today society, surely he will not head in that direction based on current understanding of things.