Abstrakt: |
Tesla may be a wizard, but he was not a scientist; certain colleagues and publications felt it was their duty to make it clear that Tesla was endangering the "thinking public." From "My Destroyer" to "The Problem": Tesla's failure to communicate In May of 1898, Tesla gave the first public display of his telautomaton submarine boat at the Electrical Exhibition at Madison Square Garden (Figure 1). Indeed, as [9] explains, Tesla enjoyed these "boom years for popular science", and science fiction often appeared alongside articles by or about Tesla in I Pearson's Magazine, Cassell's i , or the I Century i (pp. 181, 179). Thomas C Martin, who had been Tesla's early editor and champion, published an article in the I Electrical Engineer i that shifted from the practicality of Tesla's patents to personal attacks. [Extracted from the article] |