bphgravity
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I finally had the opportunity to watch the movie "The Prestige" this weekend. I was pleasantly surprised to find a major side theme to the movie was centered on Nikola Tesla during his visit to Colorado Springs in the summer of 1899.
While many of the aspects of the story are fictitious, there are some neat scenes of what his laboratory and experiments MAY have looked like. The character of TESLA is played by David Bowie the rock star of all people.
In the movie, TESLA is commissioned by a magician to build a transportation machine. Instead, the magician takes possession of a machine but by TESLA even more remarkable. I won't give it away, go see the movie.
The movie was pretty rough on EDISON. Early in the movie, the movie implies that EDISON henchmen attend TESLA conventions and heckle the crowd with misinformation. It's sort of a spin off of the old "war of currents" debates that took place during the era.
Later in the movie, it's implied that EDISON henchmen burn down TESLA's lab in Colorado Springs, forcing him to leave the area. Of course, this never happened. TESLA's building in NEW YORK did burn several years earlier, but it was never linked nor implied to be the work EDISON or anyone else. It was a true accident. TESLA actually left Colorado Springs after one of his experiments burned down the cities generator plant.
So, the movie twists things around a bit, but it?s a fun historical fiction for you electrical history buffs out there.
Check it out...
While many of the aspects of the story are fictitious, there are some neat scenes of what his laboratory and experiments MAY have looked like. The character of TESLA is played by David Bowie the rock star of all people.
In the movie, TESLA is commissioned by a magician to build a transportation machine. Instead, the magician takes possession of a machine but by TESLA even more remarkable. I won't give it away, go see the movie.
The movie was pretty rough on EDISON. Early in the movie, the movie implies that EDISON henchmen attend TESLA conventions and heckle the crowd with misinformation. It's sort of a spin off of the old "war of currents" debates that took place during the era.
Later in the movie, it's implied that EDISON henchmen burn down TESLA's lab in Colorado Springs, forcing him to leave the area. Of course, this never happened. TESLA's building in NEW YORK did burn several years earlier, but it was never linked nor implied to be the work EDISON or anyone else. It was a true accident. TESLA actually left Colorado Springs after one of his experiments burned down the cities generator plant.
So, the movie twists things around a bit, but it?s a fun historical fiction for you electrical history buffs out there.
Check it out...
