Nikola Tesla: Difference between revisions

* 1. Tesla lacked marketing ability and business knowledge. He concentrated on science and ignored the need to build a network of contacts.

* 2. [[Thomas Edison]] had such ability and knowledge; he also made political connections and promoted his public image.

* 4. The [[United States]] government covered up his inventions during [[World War One]] and [[World War II]] since they were scared that the German Empire or the Nazis would develop a superweapon from his designs.

 

== Literature ==

* Tesla plays a brief but important role in ''[[The Prestige]]''. {{spoiler|He rips physics a new one by inventing a [[Steampunk]] matter duplicator.}}

* In ''[[Far Fetched Fiction|The Witches Of Chiswick]]'', it's revealed that in the ideal timeline, Nikola Tesla was respected and befriended several other scientists - particularly Charles Babbage. Which led to him perfecting his inventions and bringing about the space age (plus broadcasted electricity and androids) in the Victorian era. This is screwed up when time-traveling witches pollute the time line which leads to a [[Dystopia|dystopic]] time line. This is patched up and we end with the current timeline we all live in.

** As an ironic historical note, had Tesla beat Edison at the whole electricity business and broadcast electricity become the dominant business model, modern electronics would have to have evolved in a radically different direction, since shooting loads of high frequency alternating current through the air is seriously bad news for transistors.

 

== Music ==

* The band [[Dream Team|8in8]] ([[Ben Folds (Music)|Ben Folds]], [[Amanda Palmer]], [[OK Go|Damian Kulash]], and [[Neil Gaiman]]) opened their album ''Nighty Night'' with a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|pun-laden]] love song to a time-traveling Tesla. [http://music.amandapalmer.net/album/nighty-night\]

* [[Joy Electric]], the Christian Electronica band, has a rather odd song dedicated to Tesla (as noted in the page quote).

* Tesla was featured as a character in [[Real Life]], [[Captain Obvious|believe it or not]].

* [http://www.teslamotors.com/ Tesla Motors], which builds high-performance electric vehicles, is named in tribute to him.

* [[Zomg Smells]] makes a scent as a tribute to Nikola Tesla entitled [http://www.zomgsmells.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=11&products_id=50 The Melancholy Death of Nikola Tesla].

 

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