who was tesla's backer
In 1901, he began construction of the 57m high Wardenclyffe tower in New York. Ostensibly for telegraphy, he used the tower to further his experiments into the transmission of electricity. But by 1906, his chief financial backer JP Morgan grew dissatisfied with Teslaâs experiments and withdrew funding. Teslaâs plans were in ruin, he became desperate and, according to biographers, suffered a nervous breakdown. Nikola Tesla in 1890