There was once a very great electrical inventor who denied the existence of electrons. He sold a patent to Westinghouse for the equivalent of $1.5 million in today’s money. John Jacob Astor invested the modern equivalent of $2.4 million in his inventions and John Pierpont Morgan invested the equivalent of $4.5 million. He lived high off the hog …
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