
Hitlerstopguy05
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Pretty common for stuff like this to happenBack in 1895, Nikola Tesla’s entire lab mysteriously burned down in New York. It wasn’t just a small fire, it coincidentally completely destroyed all his early inventions, notes, and equipment. He was doing experiments at the time, like wireless power transmission and early versions of tech that could’ve made electricity free and sent through the air. The fire started in the basement in the middle of the night, and no one has figured out what caused it.
What makes people suspicious is that this fire happened right as Tesla was making very important breakthroughs. His ideas threatened the entire business model of guys like Edison and J.P. Morgan who made money by selling electricity through wires and meters. If Tesla’s ideas worked, people wouldn’t need that infrastructure, and those billionaires would lose control. Then boom, everything burns. All his progress, his tools, his documents were all gone in one night. Tesla was devastated and said he didn’t even know how to move forward after it.
Later, when he tried to build the Wardenclyffe Tower to transmit wireless energy to the world, he got funding from J.P. Morgan at first, but when Morgan realized Tesla’s idea meant he couldn’t profit from it (because it would make energy free), he pulled the funding. The tower was never finished and eventually got torn down.
Then, when Tesla died in 1943, the government swooped in and took all his stuff. A government scientist named John G. Trump (Donald Trump’s uncle) was the one who looked through it. He claimed there was nothing of value in it, but that was definitely just a cover-up. They think some of Tesla’s work got classified or secretly used by the military.
There’s also an actual U.S. law from the 1950s that lets the government bury any invention that might threaten national security or existing industries. Tesla’s ideas were never really lost, they were just locked away.