Weekly photo of Nikola Tesla

[CheeseBadger]

Everyone's favourite Serbian inventor. Let's start with a classic.

[AuntieStella]

Tesla and shopping - what could be better in the run up to,Christmas?

[jobrum]

More present ideas for the Tesla fan in your life! This one is also a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.

[Summertime1]

May I just say one thing:
She's electric
She's in a family full of eccentrics
She done things I never expected
And I need more time

[TiggyD]

As Christmas is coming up I'd thought I'd post a link to a place to get great Tesla merchandise. here

[CheeseBadger]

I'm just a punter here, but gosh! That was unexpected!

[jobrum]

That is quite a bizarre combination of loves, Tesla and rays!

[AuntieStella]

The tone of the thread seems to have -ahem- evolved (?) somewhat.

He never married, did he?

[TiggyD]

And the obligatory Tesla/manta ray combo.

[TiggyD]

And again.

[TiggyD]

A few quick tattoos of Tesla, showing he's still as popular as ever.

[TiggyD]

There is a crater on the far side of the moon named Tesla. 38.5°N 124.7°E if you're thinking of visiting. It's 43km wide so it should be easy to find.

[TiggyD]

He possibly wasn't a feminist.

"The world has experienced many tragedies, but to my mind the greatest tragedy of all is the present economic condition wherein women strive against men, and in many cases actually succeed in usurping their places in the professions and in industry....This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilisation."

[jobrum]

Wireless electric: my dream. I am blamed at home for every clump of tangled wires. They are so tangly!

[CheeseBadger]

And the image. I'd forget my head if it weren't for these bolts through my neck...

[CheeseBadger]

Normal service will be resumed around Christmas. Work and home are mad enough until then that I'll be taking a break. Feel free to take over for a bit Tiggy, or anyone else.

This week's photo shows Nikola Tesla appearing on the cover of "Electrical Experimeter" magazine in February 1919.

[AuntieStella]

That would have been a good Hallowe'en treat

[jobrum]

I bet Tesla would be totally up for a web seance.

[TiggyD]

Web seance?

[CheeseBadger]

Although he had once said that he considered women to be superior to men in every way, Tesla's opinion changed - as women did during his lifetime.

"In place of the soft voiced, gentle woman of my reverent worship, has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies in making herself as much as possible like man - in dress, voice and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind. The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me". Galveston Daily News - 1924.

This week's photograph shows Nikola Tesla with (among others) King Peter II of Yugoslavia at the Hotel New Yorker in 1942. This was the year before his death, which is why Tiggy may be waiting some time for a web chat.

[HalloToJasonIsaacs]

Damn, found this thread for the first time but not quite in time to catch the documentary on Yesterday.

Looking forward to the week you run out of actual photos of Tesla and have to sub in David Bowie from the Prestige.

Older Tesla with no moustache looks like Nightingale from The Rivers of London series in the 1970s before he started getting younger (v. niche reference I realise).

[AuntieStella]

They've just mentioned this event, held annually in Nottingham. Next one is in March 2017

www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/nottingham-gaussfest/

Should we send a MN delegation?

[AuntieStella]

Yesterday (Freeview 19) right now!!!

Forbidden History: The Genius of Nikola Tesla

[jobrum]

Ah Tesla. It looks like he's spinning a galaxy around in his lab.

[TiggyD]

Can we get him on for a web chat?