Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. His many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were based on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael Faraday. Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.
Born in the village of Smiljan (now part of Gospić, present day Croatia), Tesla was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Because of his 1894 demonstration of short range wireless communication through radio and as the eventual victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. He pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. In the United States during this time, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture. Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices in 1891, and aspired to intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.
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In an alternate 1943 where the world has never known Einstein's game-changing theory of Special Relativity, Albert Einstein is taking huge risks to prove the curvature of the Universe by sending himself--and his theories--back in time. But in order to bend Space-Time Albert needs the help of his cantankerous scientific rival, Nikola Tesla.
Who says the afterlife is painless? Megahertz.
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Nikola Tesla, renowned inventor (and perpetually broke), is confronted in his hotel apartment by a timid bellboy with'The Bill.' This comedy short is based the myth that Tesla used a mythical 'death-ray' to passively ward off payments for his residence at the Hotel New Yorker.
Keywords: algonquin-indian, bellhop, death-ray, tesla
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In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, actor, adultery, ambiguous-ending, animal-experimentation, argument, arm-in-a-sling, artificial-human
A Friendship That Became a Rivalry.
A Rivalry That Turned Deadly.
Are You Watching Closely?
Cutter: Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."
[last lines]::Cutter: Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.
Cutter: You're a magician, not a wizard.
Robert Angier: I never thought I'd find an answer at the bottom of a pint glass.::Cutter: Hasn't stopped you looking, has it?
Alfred Borden: You went half way around the world... you spent a fortune... you did terrible things... really terrible things Robert, and all for nothing.::Robert Angier: For nothing?::Alfred Borden: Yeah::Robert Angier: You never understood, why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special... you really don't know?... it was... it was the look on their faces...
Alfred Borden: So... we go alone now. Both of us. Only I don't have as far to go as you. Go. You were right, I should have left him to his damn trick. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for a lot of things. I'm sorry about Sarah. I didn't mean to hurt her... I didn't. You go and live your life in full now, all right? You live for both of us.::Fallon: Goodbye.
Sarah: I know what you really are. And Alfred, I can't live like this.::Alfred Borden: Oh, you think I can live like this? You think I bloody enjoy, living like this? We have a beautiful house, lovely little girl, we're married, what is so wrong with your life?
Sarah: Alfred I can't live like this!::Alfred Borden: Well, what do you want from me?::Sarah: I want... I want you to be honest with me. No tricks, no lies, no secrets.::[pause]::Sarah: Do you... do you love me?::Alfred Borden: Not today. No.
[after showing a little boy how to do a coin trick]::Alfred Borden: Never show anyone. They'll beg you and they'll flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up... you'll be nothing to them.
Alfred Borden: The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything.
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Nikola Tesla invented or developed many of the electrical technologies which form the basis of modern life, including: alternating-current (AC) power transmission and electric motors; high-frequency (HF) communications, the basis for radio and television; neon lighting; remote radio-control; and X-rays. But his visionary genius and technical skill was countered by his lack of business acumen and eccentric personality. After dying penniless in 1943, his "missing papers" regarding the construction of a 'death ray' became the focus of international intrigue. His research on particle beam weapons led to several American and Soviet military research programs, including the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as SDI or "Star Wars".
Keywords: 48-star-american-flag, alternating-current, antenna, apocryphal-story, archival-footage, archival-photograph, budapest, business, business-rivalry, cholera
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Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
Keywords: eccentric, electricity, exploitation, extra-terrestrial, financier, genius, inventor, nicola-tesla, outer-space, science
Lesser known of these inventors
Bell, Marconi, T. Edison
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Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, who remembers?
Libraries of calculations
Unfinished and then forgotten
Radio, a feat unheard of
Broadcast from a wireless system
Neon lights, fluorescent light bulbs
Microscopes and basic radar
Genius, scientist, inventor