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Famous Scientific Illusions

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.

Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.

Electrical Oscillators

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity. In 1893 he patented an electro-mechanical oscillator as a steam-powered electric generator. By his own account, one version of the oscillator caused an earthquake in New York City in 1898, for which it was accorded the moniker, «Tesla's earthquake machine.»

A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity. During college his professors explained that it was impossible to design an engine without commutators or brushes. Tesla was unconvinced that such was necessary or even particularly desirable. It was then that Tesla began his work on the rotating field motor that ultimately gave birth to the modern age. In May of 1888, Tesla delivered his lecture «A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers» before The American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the world has never been the same.

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

R.A. Lafferty

R.A. Lafferty was a master of the science fiction short story. Here is presented one of his classic works.

Catiline

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. In his preface to this play Voltaire says: «The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy, they very well know, is not a history, but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that Cicero, Catiline, Cato and Cæsar do in this piece is not true, but their genius and character are faithfully represented: if we do not there discover the eloquence of Cicero, we shall at least find displayed all that courage and virtue which he showed in the hour of danger. In Catiline is described that contrast of fierceness and dissimulation which formed his real character; Cæsar is represented as growing into power, factious, and brave; that Cæsar who was born at once to be the glory and the scourge of Rome.»

The Good Neighbors

Edgar Pangborn

Edgar Pangborn's science fiction classic. «The ship itself occasioned some excitement, but back there at the tattered end of the century, what was one visiting spaceship more or less?»

The Gifts of Asti

Andre Norton

Andre Norton's science fiction classic depicts the struggles of the last remaining priestess to a powerful-yet-aloof deity.

Origin of Species

Чарльз Дарвин

The Origin of Species is the landmark book that for better of worse put science and religion at odds. Very few people who have read this book and come away not believing in evolution. The detail of research is even by today's standards stunning; and the writing is still eminently readable. Second only to the Bible in its scope of influence, this book is a pertinent today as when it was first written.