Edison lost the current wars in 1893. Tesla lost something larger. This book reads Tesla's life forensically. Not as the story of a tragic genius, but as documentation of four mechanisms by which a hegemonic industrial network neutralizes the inventor who could end it.
Across seventy pages it traces capture, path dependency, network exclusion, and failure signature through five periods of Tesla's career, from Smiljan in 1856 to the seizure of his papers by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in January 1943. A sixth section treats the architecture of the posthumous name. Appendices document the same four mechanisms applied to inventors beside Tesla: Edwin Armstrong, Robert Goddard, Philo Farnsworth, and Royal Rife.
Published as Forensic Narrative Intelligence Writing (FNIW). 71 pages. Free to read, free to share.