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The case for a Nikola Tesla museum

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
August 16, 2012 at 4:54 pm EDT

In June, TED favorite Marco Tempest told us about the “electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla,” the late 1800s inventor who held more than 700 patents, including for concepts still used today like alternating current, radio, remote control and robotics. However, after building a wireless telegraphy center in upstate New York that he envisioned […]

Entertainment

Marco Tempest makes the early 1900s new again as he tells the story of Nikola Tesla

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
June 20, 2012 at 2:00 pm EDT

Illusionist Marco Tempest is known for making magic out of new technology, memorably using iPods culled from the TED audience for his talk about the beauty of deception. But for his newest TEDTalk, Tempest reaches to the past to create visual wizardry, telling the story of inventor Nikola Tesla using the principles of tanagra theatre. […]