Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard

Nikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard. LINK: Youtube

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And Tesla the Twain Shall Meet

Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens tests Tesla's inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist.

It's not terribly surprising that the two men were friends, since they were both revered figures in Gilded Age New York City, but it's endlessly fascinating to read about how these two men came to be friends—essentially, as mutual fanboys.

There's also a lesson to modern day science and tech luminaries: spend your famous friend currency wisely. [TheOpenEnd]. Via: Gizmodo

Nikola Tesla

Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday. Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer.

Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia.

He was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Tesla is often described as an important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who 'shed light over the face of Earth.'

Nikola Tesla is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. LINK