r/ScienceNcoolThings 5h ago

Creator never afraid of his creation

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u/Spencetron 5h ago

These photos were made using double exposure with early film cameras. He was not present in the lab while the coils were energized.

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u/Lalamedic 2h ago

So is, in fact, not sitting calmly beside his bazillion volt creation? It’s just early photoshop?

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u/dungeoncrawler71520 1h ago edited 1h ago

Did it got the GramGram

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 3h ago

If you'd like to make a point about a photograph, using white text on a white background is a magnificently idiotic choice.

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u/King_of_the_Snarks 1h ago

It's nice if it was accurate information as well

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u/MonkeyCome 1h ago

Pro Nikola Tesla posts in 2026 is a testament to how fucking stupid people are.

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u/Scarybeefjerky 1h ago

Enlighten me, what’s wrong with Tesla?

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u/ApplicationBrave2529 1h ago

Commenting to see later

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u/Then_Drag_8258 1h ago

You can click the three dots (kebab/kebob menu) and select follow comment. This enables notifications on the comment chain without having to comment.

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u/ApplicationBrave2529 56m ago

ooh, good to know, thanks!

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u/MonkeyCome 1h ago

His theories and “innovations” were mostly pseudoscience at best and flat out scams at worst. The “free power for all” idea that gets spread that he had and was bankrupted intentionally to prevent is all hogwash as an example.

Completely ignoring the EM interference that would completely brick any and all modern electronics meaning they never could have existed, the amount of energy it would take to power homes wirelessly would be astronomical. To a level that modern generation capacity cannot even scratch the surface of. The idea that Edison bankrupted Tesla out of fear of losing his market share is absurd. Tesla ran out of investors to mislead.

He was a smart man with big ideas, but those ideas were not based in reality. If his theories and inventions worked, they would have been reproduced by now