The House of Morgan: the mighty John Pierpont and his commanding daughter Anne were Tesla’s new target at the end of the first year of the new century (1901). It could have been a match made in heaven, a marriage of the ‘wizard of electricity’ and the foundress of suffragette city. However, Tesla, as always, went for the work, not for his love or personal relationships. And it worked, Pierpont Morgan gave him a lot of money, but for a price: 51% of all of Tesla’s patents were in the hands of the Wall Street Mogul now. And then Marconi sent three dots across the Atlantic, making Tesla’s most ambitious project obsolete. Teslas”WorldWideWireless system” was not needed any more, and it was much too expensive. Unfinished as it was Wardenclyffe had to be abandoned.
