Question 21 - The article also mentioned such things as better jet engines. . . and stated the turbine design was based on a Tesla patent. Is there any truth to this or was I misinformed?
As a result of the " War of Currents ," Edison and Westinghouse were almost bankrupt , so in 1897, Tesla released Westinghouse from contract, providing Westinghouse a break from Tesla's patent royalties
The Nikola Tesla patent lists on this site represent the result of meticulous research at a branch of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Jim Bieberich, Patent Historian.
Many of the claims are not patentable over Tesla patent numbers 645,576 and 649,621, of record, the amendment to overcome said references as well as Marconi's pretended ignorance of the nature of a ...