Rob Flickenger is a real-life mad scientist. If you don’t believe me, just check out at this picture. That is not the look of a healthy-minded purveyor of technical topics. He even has a ray-gun of sorts to back up his insane engineering credentials — a working Tesla-inspired lightning gun. As its creator states: “You pull the trigger and lightning comes out the front.”
With Einstein’s universal speed limit in a jumble after CERN did what it does best, it appears Nikola Telsa could have saved the international science organisation some trouble. It’s a well-known fact the Serbian engineer was way ahead of his time. But close to 80 years? That’s quite a prediction.
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We’re big fans of Nikola Tesla around these parts, which is why I’m so pleasantly shocked that he’s gotten his very own hilarious Drunk History treatment. And hey, it’s actually pretty accurate!
Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens tests Tesla’s inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist.
This was Nikola Tesla’s letterhead. It reminded us that along with the overlooked little things changing our lives, but let’s face it: We need the loud, filthy, slaughter-filled battles just as much. Like the dirty War of the Currents.
