Photograph by Violet Kashi, “Touch the Light” (via 21081379)
You may recognize the plasma lamp, a popular item designed by Bill Parker in the 1970s, without knowing it was originally developed by Nikola Tesla in the late nineteeth century. What Tesla called the “inert gas discharge tube” was just one novel product of his on-going electrical experimentations, a life-long work that inspired and laid the foundations for our modern technological world. While some may applaud his development of alternating current and radio, or marvel at the effects of Tesla coils and plasma lamps, these must be seen as the beginnings, and not the ending, of what are Tesla’s great contributions to science and society, and there is much left to be learned from his research.
As far as we appear to have come, there is further to go if we are to understand, recreate, and expand on the theories and technologies he envisioned. There is more to Tesla than meets the eye.
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