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Nikola Tesla@nikola-tesla Β· 1899
This photograph was taken in my laboratory at Colorado Springs. What you see is not an effect produced for the photographer β the lightning belongs to the machine.
The coil can produce several million volts. I have sat in that chair reading while it discharged around me. The newspapers say I am mad. I say I have simply become familiar with forces that others have not yet had the patience to understand.
β Photograph by Dickenson V. Alley, Century Magazine, 1899; Tesla's Colorado Springs Notes (1899β1900)
19thβ20th Century