{"id":5081,"date":"2011-02-10T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/mark-twain-tesla-and-edison\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:19:22","slug":"mark-twain-tesla-and-edison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/mark-twain-tesla-and-edison\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain, Tesla, and Edison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Twain_in_Tesla2527s_Lab.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Twain_in_Tesla2527s_Lab.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572013616312522386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For Christmas my wife gave me Mark Twain&#8217;s recently released autobiography. This put me on the path to &#8220;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer&#8221; which I&#8217;m reading on the train these days. I was pleased to find out that Mark Twain was very interested in science and technology. He liked to note that he was born during an appearance of Haley&#8217;s comet, and that he would die when the comet returned (he did!) <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Twain\">Wikipedia <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">notes that there was a lot of tech talk in Twain&#8217;s &#8220;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court&#8221; (one of my favorite books from high school days). Twain was close to Nikola Tesla. The wonderful picture (above) shows him in Tesla&#8217;s lab. He was filmed by Thomas Edison (YouTube version below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/leYj--P4CgQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas my wife gave me Mark Twain&#8217;s recently released autobiography. This put me on the path to &#8220;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer&#8221; which I&#8217;m reading on the train these days. I was pleased to find out that Mark Twain was very interested in science and technology. He liked to note that he was born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/mark-twain-tesla-and-edison\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Twain, Tesla, and Edison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edison-thomas","category-tesla-nikola","category-twain-mark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}