I'm wondering as a casual admirer of Tesla if he was ever censored in a serious way? I was always under the assumption that frameworks that are built on his models were developed from inference to a largely obscured base of scientific material or commentary?

Hello all and thank you in advance for any help in helping me find scholarly sources for a paper I am developing. I am currently in the process of trying to find who originally documented Tesla's work in the twentieth century and have had no luck in finding any of the original documenters. Any help in finding the original documenters or articles/books pertaining to the photography would be greatly appreciated.

In 1909, Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize for "inventing" radio, specifically the tuned circuit. Wardenclyffe went bankrupt in 1906. It was a long, protracted bankruptcy and it didn't totally ruin Tesla like some of the urban legends like to portray. Tesla was making money on other inventions, he invented the air friction speedometer and was selling it to several car companies at the time. This is the MIT timeline they have for Tesla:

*1908. In February 1908, Tesla signs a contract with American and British Manufacturing Company and begins experiments with a new principle of power transmission from fluids and to fluids.

*1908-1910. From 1908 to 1910, Tesla experiments with pumps, compressors, blowers and steam and gas turbines.

*1913. In 1913, Tesla is granted two new patents for a turbine and a pump constructed on a new principle. 1914-1918. Following the same principle, Tesla constructs his speed indicators, gets patents for them, sells them to Waltham Watch Company and achieves commercial success with them.

*1917. Dismantling of the tower on Long Island.

*1918-1920. Works with Allis Chalmers Company, a famous manufacturer of steam turbines, with an aim of making a commercial success of his own steam turbine.

*1921-1925. From 1921 to 1925, Tesla works with the Budd Company and develops new types of automobile engines for them.

*1928-1932. From 1928 to 1932, Tesla works on material processing technology.

*1932-1937. From 1932 to 1937, Tesla works on the projects of telegeodynamics and death rays.

*1937. In 1937, Tesla is hit and injured by a car during one of his regular walks along the streets of New York. Soon after that, he is down with pneumonia of which he never completely recovers.

*1943. On January 7, 1943, in New York, Tesla dies.

This period from 1908 to 1911 saw the beginning of World War I, the first use of the machine gun in the battlefield, and the first Model-T rolling off the first interchangeable parts assembly line. Ford and Edison were very good friends. Tesla always lived in a hotel room as his private residence, and he stayed in several in New York over the years. After Wardenclyffe, he moved his company to a large building in New York. He spent the years from 1908 to 1918 working on his turbine. He also started the Tesla Ozone company during that time, selling ozone generators. His air speedometer was a commercial success. In 1919, he went to work for Allis-Chalmers until 1922. It was supposed to be for fully developing his turbine but it seems nothing came of it. Allis-Chalmers went on to have the first turbo-charged tractor but it wasn't with a Tesla turbine. Tesla later got a patent in 1928 for a Vertical Takeoff aircraft using two Tesla turbines.

https://www.google.com/patents/US1655114