118 исторических миниатюр и 108 авторских текстов на 13 иностранных языках. Сборник
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"The year in the mountains, service to the army in volunteer formations"
"The amounts received by Tesla from Westinghouse for patents",
"What sums of money could Tesla receive without dissolving the contract with Westinghouse for the deductions",
"When has died Tesla",
"Tesla died?" etc.
To (1) "Basic elements of the Biography", (2) "Storylines", (3) "Interpretations, assumptions, versions", add a fourth position: "Themes".
The diversity of topics is reflected in the biographic arts.
Topics:
"The Childhood of Tesla",
"Genius of Tesla,"
"The peculiarities of the thinking Tesla",
"Tesla and gambling",
"Tesla and Edison",
"Tesla and Westinghouse",
"Tesla and Money",
"Tesla and women",
"Personal life Tesla" and others.
It is logical to add the topic "the Success of Tesla and laws of his success."
What I intend to do in the book about the laws of intellectual success, exemplified by Heinrich Schliemann, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison (in comparison).
This book is logically followed after the book I wrote, "Writer's Success textbook. Heinrich Schliemann, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, and their lessons".
Separate kits of themes:
"Legends on fatal scientifically technical fulfillments, improbable opening, mysterious experiments of Tesla",
"Suspicions about Tesla: vampirism, cannibalism, arrival from other planets (option: from other worlds)",
"(Confidential/mysterious) heritage of Tesla" and others.
What are the patterns of emergence of new publications about Tesla?
One of the most natural cultural tendencies is connected with mysteriousness of Tesla. The genius is inevitably mysterious. The mysteriousness gives rise to interest. The result of the interest - are the new publications. Each successive publication - more or less conscientious - trying to comprehend and absorb the contents of the previous, trying to make something new.
Additional local tendencies:
(1) Specification of biographic details through archival search and finds.
(2) New interpretation of already known.
(3) Promotion of new versions.
(4) Expansion of a circle of subjects.
"Peculiar" tendencies: "manifestations of fears, hopes, regrets, delights". For example:
"The inventions of Tesla pose threat for the future!",
"The world will become safe/dangerous and rich/unpredictable thanks to the inventions of Tesla!",
"How many could do and how many had not (could not) make a Tesla!" (variant: "How much did Tesla!").
If to sum. Nikola Tesla - the theme is boundless. And for readers and for writers.
And why is it so? It seems that Tesla is personified science in the format of a mystery. And such a mystery can never be solved. Such a mystery they guess always.
Nikola Tesla is a Mystery of Science. Big, interesting MYSTERY!
4.What to write about Nikola Tesla?
Let's go to the third question, "What to write about Nikola Tesla?"
In fact, everyone writes about what he thinks is relevant, necessary, deserving of interest.
However, there are some cultural dominants. For example, a writer writes a hypothetical product for children: about fictional schoolchildren engaged in the construction of an unusual motor vehicle. But in his (writer) consciousness, there is, for example, the dominant: healthy lifestyle. There is no special mention of "healthy lifestyle" in the text itself, but it is based on that dominantity: the way of life of the heroes is consistent with the notion of "healthy".
Will tell my thoughts on the possible dominant (albeit latent) for publications concerning the biography of Nikola Tesla. I understand that this is the version, the reason for reflection. Maybe some discussion.
First, notice that specification of the details of the biography of Nikola Tesla does not lose its importance. Although the relevance of this clarification is not in the foreground. The main thing - is clear. He lived. He acted. He was brilliant and successful.
In the second. Disclosure of technical, scientific "secrets" of Tesla - how important it is? Of course the "opening" of the "mystery" and "mysteries" may yield results... In some cases...
But let us make a distinction between "uncovering" someone's "secrets" and the faithful study of scientific history, of the natural development of science.
Archival search? When and who opposed them?
Third. The "Nikola Tesla Manifesto" (tentatively 1904) announce "the revolution in the production, transformation and transfer of energy, in the fields of transport, lighting, chemical components, telegraph, telephone and other Industrial and artistic fields". "These successes will have to be followed by universal acceptance of high voltage and high frequencies ..."
The major emphasis on the participation of Tesla in the electrifying USA was made, for example, in the book of Margaret Cheney's "Tesla. A man from the future".
The electrification of America, and then of the world meant the advent of a new technological era.
An outstanding personality in the electrification of the United States - along with Westinghouse, Edison and other prominent figures, - Nikola Tesla.
And if you take scientific, technological, inventive aspects, then Nikola Tesla belongs in the electrification of the US (and the world) the main role, perhaps. The new world had a pioneer, there were pioneers ...