{"id":364469,"date":"2010-02-25T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5480558"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:20:39","slug":"and-tesla-the-twain-shall-meet-image-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364469","title":{"rendered":"And Tesla the Twain Shall Meet [Image Cache]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Twain<\/a> and Nikola Tesla<\/a>: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends<\/a>. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens<\/a> tests Tesla’s inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist.<\/p>\n

It’s not terribly surprising that the two men were friends, since they were both revered figures in Gilded Age New York City, but it’s endlessly<\/em> fascinating to read about how these two men came to be friends—essentially, as mutual fanboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s also a lesson to modern day science and tech luminaries: spend your famous friend currency wisely. [TheOpenEnd<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens tests Tesla’s inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist. It’s not terribly surprising that the two men were friends, since they were both revered figures in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}