6/21/2023 0 Comments Tesla man out of timeHe provided light to the 1893 Columbia Exposition in Chicago, which helped expand the acceptance of electric lighting. In particular, he experimented on remote-control ships and submarines, but one can easily see how these anticipate the remote-control military aircraft of today. He pioneered the development of remote control vehicles for defensive purposes. His patents also led directly to the invention of radio. He’s directly responsible for all of our buildings being wired with AC plugs. In the real world, Tesla was interested in the propagation of electromagnetic waves. That story appeared in the All-Martian Spectacular issue of Science Fiction Trails Magazine, which appears to be out of print. I’ve even written a story where I imagine Tesla’s research in Colorado Springs led him to learn more about Mars than is widely known. The title is a link and will take you to the Amazon page where you can get your own copy of the anthology. The two experiences helped to inspire my story “A Specter in the Light,” which appears in the anthology DeadSteam. I would actually take a crack at building a Tesla coil as an electronics club project in college. Nikola Tesla is something of a steampunk icon and his work has fascinated me ever since I saw my first Tesla coil at the Griffith Park Observatory on a family outing when I was a child. My brother sent me an early birthday present this year, a copy of Margaret Cheney’s biography of Nikola Tesla called Tesla: Man Out of Time.
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