Ever thought about how inventors generally were not very well-liked in their lifetimes?

People didn't really cotton to Eli Whitney.
John Deere had his de-tractors.
Robert Fulton often went against the winds.
Samuel Morse had to send and receive his messages in code.
Thomas Edison needed deodorant (99% perspiration).
George Eastman was always having to close his shutters.
The temperature always dropped when Willis Carrier entered the room.
King Gillette was too sharp for his own good.
But, there was also the popular George Westinghouse-- the original refrigerator magnate.

 

Criticism directed at Peter Cooper made him boil; when he finally cooled down he was stopped on his tracks.

Samuel Colt wasn't the Peacemaker he aspired to be, but he gave it his best shot.

The notion of having a conversation over many miles was an idea for dingalings until Alexander Graham Bell became the receiver of that calling. Some people still called him phony.