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NIKOLA TESLA, 1899
Serbian Physicist Nikola Tesla sits with his 'magnifying transmitter', the largest Tesla coil he ever made. Sparks appear to fly around him – but all is not as it seems. As sitting so close to this ‘live’ coil would almost certainly have been fatal, this shot employs some photo trickery: a double exposure. He built this coil in an attempt to wirelessly transmit electricity across the world. Those efforts came to naught, but the technology he developed is still used today in radio.
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