io9.com — Inventor Nikola Tesla invented the radio, experimented with wireless electricity, and designed a death ray. In science fiction, his work goes even further. We list Tesla's greatest fictional inventions and the facts behind the fiction.
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syntaxgsJan 11, 2009
it was Bell That invented AC for a telephones =PTesla made the Tesla Coil,,,,jeez
Closed AccountJan 11, 2009
This was mentioned in Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power also.
Closed AccountJan 11, 2009
Exactly, Greed overcame a great man. Not his own though, he was kind a generous. Those people that ruined him are now the biggest companies on earth GE being one of them. Never do business with them period, their banking system is a crooks workshop.
chloemsJan 11, 2009
Two words... Government and Corporations.
crashingechelonJan 11, 2009
My complaint for the article is they confused Christopher Nolan's Prestige with Christopher Priest's Prestige. In the book when Angier was duplicated it left behind an empty shell of his body. When he'd enter the machine he'd always put his body in different positions and they'd be frozen in time in that way. So it always made a new Angier and killed the previous one. What Borden did is in the middle of the show when he snuck back to see how it worked he thought it was going to blow up the theater so he turned off the machine in the middle of Angier using it. Essentially what I got out of what happened is he wasn't full copied and his body was split into two parts, his body and his soul. The Prestige is an excellent novel and I recommend it to anyone.
Closed AccountJan 12, 2009
No, he just claims he did.
frostekJan 12, 2009
I've always considered Joseph Swan the actual inventor of the filament light bulb, although there were many people working on the same issue at around the same time.