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Out of left field Submitted by Keith Phillips on Tue, 2005-12-06 14:51
This is a little out of left field, does anybody know if A.R. and Nikola Tesla ever met.
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Graybosch "would be surprised if Rand had not at least heard of Tesla's work given her description of Galt's motor." I would be shocked to discover that she had not.
I believe that before the end of WW II, Tesla and Edison and Marconi were household names. Edison and Marconi are remembered, but Tesla seems forgotten -- at least in the common mind. We here know, perhaps, and we here might find "many" others out there who know of Tesla, but I submit that this is special knowledge, not taught to ordinary people in common circumstances. Everyone "knows" that Marconi "invented" the radio. I think that in Ayn Rand's time, in the 1930s and 1940s, "everyone" knew something else.
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Rand and Tesla
I don't know of any references to Ayn Rand meeting Nikola Tesla in person, but I would be surprised if Rand had not at least heard of Tesla's work given her description of Galt's motor.