>>13491773During the 1920's, at a time when he was in great need of money to
complete his electropropulsive ship, he unsuccessfully attempted to
interest the U.S. government in some of this surplus "spin off' technology.
In an unpublished article prepared but never published, Tesla said: "...we
should push the development of flying machines and wireless transmission
of energy without an instant's delay and with all the power and resources
of the nation". The immediate association here is between "flying
machines" (not "aeroplanes") and "wireless transmission of energy". Tesla
had piles of patents which produced him no money, because the Morgans
and Rockefellers had declared them off limits. No one could borrow money
from the banks to put one of these systems into practice, and anyone who
was foolish enough to do so on their own money could expect the wrath of
the gods to come down on them like lightening bolts from Zeus.
