Tesla Inc.’s share price surged 7.9%, taking Musk past Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk is now worth $194.8 billion, or $9.5 billion more than Bezos.
January 7, Elon Musk became the richest man in the world, on the same day in 1943, Nikola Tesla after whom Tesla Motors is named died broke.
Who Was Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American engineer and physicist who made scores of breakthroughs in the development, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first motor with alternating current (AC) and developed technology for AC generation and transmission. While he was renowned and admired, his many inventions could never be converted into long-term financial success, unlike his rival’s Thomas Edison.
Scientists attribute the revolution of electric age to Nikola Tesla.
An inveterate inventor, Tesla filed more than 700 patents for everything from wireless communication to fluorescent lighting. Some of his ideas never came to fruition, including a "death-beam."
#source:- IndiaTimes