Nikola Tesla and his "magnifying transmitter" in the lab.

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Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Recently learned this is a double exposure image. They took an exposure in an unlit room for the lightning, then put Tesla in there reading a book and took the second exposure.

kindenough@kbin.earth · 15 pts · 2y

Correct.

Still a nice composition but it is @deceivinglyhistoryporn if not in the right context.

MakunaHatata@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This photo is so famous yet I never knew this fact about it. Thanks!

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Someone probably claimed AI, and then someone else was forced to correct them based on Cunningham's Law.

I didn't know it was double exposure, too.

Dadifer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Pictures you can smell

Noodle07@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Ozone?

Brickardo@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Why wasn't he instantly fried by some of those lightnings?

Megaphauna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

He wasn't there with the arcs. It's a double-exposure photo. Take a photo with him, then remove him and start the arcs, talking a very, very short exposure photo.

masterphai@fedia.io · 0 pts · 2y

The question is: Did Nikola Tesla ever create a free energy generator? Learn more: https://www.reddit.com/r/Attraction_Spin/comments/134uk4u/teslas_free_energy/