Some materials try to draw a connecting cultural, conceptual line between Tesla, Hughes and Musk. (For example: 02.10.2018 09:23. Nikola Tesla and Elon Musk: what an inventor and a billionaire have in common. Mikhail Trofimov). (https://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/367441-nikola-tesla-i-ilon-mask-chto-obshchego-mezhdu-velikimi-izobretatelyami)
I agree with the idea itself. But I would like to make a clarification.
It was Thomas Edison who made profitable a technical creativity, inventions.
Nikola Tesla gave for technical thinking a cosmic dimension. But Tesla was far from a flight [a flying] (a flights).
After Igor Sikorsky moved from Russia to the United States, to the Western World, the topic of flights and the technical worldview associated with flights gradually began to complement the topics of (ocean) navigation and rail transport.
One area of successful application of Howard Hughes' efforts was aviation.
Elon Musk has taken up a space theme. It's probably correct to mention Richard Branson.
After Igor Sikorsky's transition to the Western Hemisphere, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky and Sergei Korolev were acting (conducted research, developed new models) in Russia. Thanks to their efforts, the first space flight was prepared and carried out. (A strange task for a country ravaged by war. - If you look from the point of view of not civilizational achievements, but from the point of view of normal human life).
China received quite a few technical documentation from the USSR and used of it efficiently. Outstanding inventors and entrepreneurs from China are unknown to us. However, this is the style ... Where and who are those 50-500 people who developed "the world's first vaccine against coronavirus"? Certain political structures may find it more convenient to do without well-known names (with some exceptions).
Recently, the media reported about an incident in Alaska with the Czech billionaire Petr Kellner.
In one of the materials, the opinion is expressed that Kellner is a strange, unusual figure for the Czech Republic.
"Great seer [visionary]" ["velký vizionář"]. "An industrious and extremely intelligent person who knew how to move forward ["Pracovitý a nadmíru inteligentní člověk, který dokázal posouvat věci dopředu"]." (Czech Radio. 15:29 March 29, 2021 "PPF has lost a great visionary, now it faces a struggle for succession, "says economist Krzeczek about Kellner's death".)
'The fact that such a person was born in the Czech Republic is rather an exception. " [Je to spíše výjimka, když se taková osobnost v Česku narodí.] (Https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/ppf-petr-kellner-smrt-havarie-vrtulnik-akcie-miliardar-nejbohatsi-podnikatel_2103291529_sto?_ga=2.114745220.207030874201704747
We begin to get acquainted with materials about Petr Kellner.
A regular, allegedly, visits to Alaska, downhill skiing from the wild mountains, an elite hotel ...
All this is interesting ... But if Kellner did not ski down from the mountains, but crossed the ocean on a high-speed catamaran? Or if he would ride a bike?
Finally, information appears about the starting stage of the emergence of the billionaire Kellner economy in the world.
Kellner's participation in the Czech and Russian privatizations is mentioned.
Privatization is also a kind of idea. Such an idea, as aviation technology, as the space industry, as space flights.
Independent plot. Kellner's success and conflicts in Russia are reported. The topic is huge, let's just make a small mention. 'The courts were littered with claims by PPF, and the Czechs won most of them by overturning the decisions of the shareholders' meeting.
So far PPF and Generali are still not allowed to manage Ingosstrakh. The situation is stalemate, and Kellner, although he did not lose, already regrets that he got involved in this story. "The point is, of course, not only in Deripaska, but in the fact that it [judicial considerations] takes up a huge amount of energy, time and effort," he says [Kellner]. " (29.03.2021 11:10. Russian Czech: how the richest man in the Czech Republic Peter Kellner built a business and what does Russian privatization have to do with it. Andrey Vyrkovsky, Pavel Miledin). (https://www.forbes.ru/forbes/issue/2009-07/7351-petr-kellner-russkii-cheh)
We read on.
The topic does not appear very clearly. Allegedly, Kellner was a kind of mediator between certain political figures, on the one hand, and with the political (economic) structures of Russia and China, on the other hand.
In general, someone needs to graze all these oil, gas, raw materials companies, all these blocks of shares that appeared after privatization.
Will Kellner remain in history? If he remains, then together with the concept of "privatization" ...
March 30, 2021 14:58
Translation from Russian into English: March 30, 2021 16:02.