Nikola Tesla in popular culture
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 107 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5093-3437-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikola Tesla, Serbian inventor and engineer, has appeared in popular culture as a character in books, films, comics, and video games. The lack of recognition Tesla received during his own lifetime, contrasted with his genius and obscurity has made him a tragic, mysterious, and inspirational character well suited to dramatic fiction. Tesla has particularly been seen in science fiction where his inventions are well suited, often exaggerated, but building mostly upon his own alleged claims of ideas. A popular, growing fixation among science fiction, comic book, and speculative history storytellers is to portray Tesla as a member of some secret society with other luminaries of science. (While allegedly linked to a variety of real-world legends, from the Freemasons to the Illuminati to Plus Ultra, Tesla denied belonging to any kind of esoteric organization.) The impact of the technologies invented by Nikola Tesla are a recurring theme in the...