{"id":182,"date":"2023-01-13T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:57:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:57:37","slug":"tesla-vs-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/technology\/tesla-vs-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla vs. &#8216;Tesla&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lives of Nicola Tesla (the real one) and &#8216;Tesla&#8217; (the cosplay one) share a  striking similarity. Tesla was very clever. His early inventions were decisive. He had an engineer&#8217;s fascination for how natural forces work but he had a prophet&#8217;s view of electrical energy.  His later life was a decline into unfulfilled visions and penury, possibly one result of the loss of his life&#8217;s work in a catastrophic fire.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The parallel? Early success followed by decline into unfulfilled vision accelerated by disaster (penury?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"51\" height=\"30\" class=\"wp-image-186\" style=\"width: 51px;\" src=\"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/turtle-e1673626664194.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carlson, W.B. (2013) Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. Princeton University Press. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691165615\/tesla\">https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691165615\/tesla<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>O\u2019Neill, J.J. (1944) Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla 2007th ed. The Book Tree. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/books\/edition\/Prodigal_Genius\/-cHJQL8qCEMC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/books\/edition\/Prodigal_Genius\/-cHJQL8qCEMC<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhys Morus, I. (2019) Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future. London: Icon Books. Available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/iconbooks.com\/ib-title\/nikola-tesla-and-the-electrical-future\">https:\/\/iconbooks.com\/ib-title\/nikola-tesla-and-the-electrical-future<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lives of Nicola Tesla (the real one) and &#8216;Tesla&#8217; (the cosplay one) share a striking similarity. Tesla was very clever. His early inventions were decisive. He had an engineer&#8217;s fascination for how natural forces work but he had a prophet&#8217;s view of electrical energy. His later life was a decline into unfulfilled visions and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/technology\/tesla-vs-tesla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tesla vs. &#8216;Tesla&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}