Just one of my favorite little treasures I’ve ever found on this Interwebs contraption — a real photo of Mark Twain hanging out in Nikola Tesla’s lab in 1894.
Ya gotta love that headline above, right? It’s too bad there isn’t a Pulitzer for puns.
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“New Year’s is a harmless annual tradition, of no particular use to anybody …”
Source: Mark Dawidziak on Facebook
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time …”
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
— Mark Twain
Photo of Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain, 1895
This has got to be one of the the greatest historical photos of all time. That is indeed Nikola Tesla, nearly wraith-like in the background, while Mark Twain commands control of a phenomenon Tesla discovered — the human body’s ability to conduct electricity.
The picture is accidentally a perfect portrait of both. We see the innocent, curious Tesla bathed in shadow in the background, along with Twain well lit, front and center. The well-meaning Tesla led a haunted existence, and was consigned to relative obscurity after rival Thomas Edison stole credit for his advances. The commanding Twain, on the other hand, benefitted from his fame.
The two were good friends. See History Buff for more.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 