Nikola Tesla
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Scientists on screen - in pictures
The private lives of the great inventors, discoverers and academics were often extraordinary. So it's not surprising that film-makers have been drawn to celebrate them and that actors have produced some terrific performances. Kit Buchan chooses the pick of the bunch over the years including Russell Crowe as John Nash and Walter Matthau as Einstein
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- Corrections and clarificationsCorrections and clarificationsThe coils used to allow an electric charge to jump the gap between them are named after the Serbian-American physicist and inventor, Nikola Tesla. We mistakenly called them Tessler coils in an arts feature headlined Licence to thrill, G2, page 15, July 6.
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- Far outNikola Tesla and universal energy
"We are on the threshold of a gigantic revolution, based on the wireless transmission of power", wrote the Croatian electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, then in his 70s, in the 1930s. "We will be enabled to illuminate the whole sky at night _ eventually we will flash power in virtually unlimited amounts to (other) planets."