I am a big fan of Tesla, but also of Einstein. To me Tesla was basically saying about Einstein that his thoughts were not original, similar ideas of relativity had been something a friend of Tesla's had talked about, much earlier than Einstein.
Neither of them were perfect humans (Thank god!), Einstein was obviously far more adept than Tesla, at wowing people of influence with his quirky eloquence, and Tesla seems to have been somewhat Jealous of that characteristic.
The biggest shame to me is that they couldn't work together, rather than in competition.
Isn't it interesting Tesla felt driven to publish something like 700 patents, whereas Einstein merely worked in the European Patents office, in his junior years?
I had a couple of patents too, a long time ago.
But now we are all starting to see that patents are not all that great, they don't really do much good for humanity, or even the patentee. The only folk who make money out of the vast majority of them are the patent agents and attorneys.
We might even say Tesla's biggest mistake was to keep all his knowledge secret.
I think Tesla, and the world would have got a lot further, if the world had not gotten so hostile towards public knowledge, in other words, if the world had not become driven so much by personal greed.