Nikola Tesla

He promised free wireless energy. His funding died, and his papers were seized the day he did.

The FBI's own declassified file confirms it: the day after Tesla died, the Office of Alien Property seized his trunks, and an MIT professor named John G. Trump evaluated them. The official finding — nothing of value — sits uneasily beside the fact that 'Project Nick,' a beam-weapon study, opened at Wright Field shortly after. Wardenclyffe's unanswered question still stands: Morgan didn't ask whether the tower would work. He asked where to put the meter.