Nicola Tesla, had the vision for power to everyones house, without power bills.  Thomas Edison, and his buddy JP Morgan wanted to set up a power for pay system.  The money powers were able to drive Tesla out, and blackball him from scientific support.  Making non directional energy directional was his lifes work.  One of the great minds of the industrial age was squashed.  There is a similar story, about a jewish carpenter, killed because of thinking outside the money box.